In 30 years of career Woody Harrelson has amassed roles in box office blockbusters such as Venom, Hunger Games And Planet of the Apes and was nominated three times for an Oscar for intense and thrilling performances. What you don’t know about his childhood and the painful relationship with his father is a roundup of the most memorable interpretations of him.
Harrelson began on the Broadway stage as a replacement in Neil Simon’s hit comedy Biloxi Blues. A few months later Woody Harrelson it would become a household name for TV show audiences Cheersin Woody Boyd’s starting from the fourth season It’s not for everyone to replace a beloved character thanks to the interpretation of Nicholas Colasanto, who died during the filming, but Woody clicked very well with the cast and the audience and received 5 Emmy nominations, as well as the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy in 1989.
The failed report of Woody Harrelson with his father
In several interviews, Woody Harrelson was blunt about his father wasn’t a very inspiring presence in her life. At the age of 12 he was shocked by the revelation that his father was a professional hitman, released after 15 years for good behavior, then sentenced to life in prison for another crime. Growing up among women, in financial straits and with a very religious upbringing, and discovering that his father, whom he missed, was a criminal, had a very negative effect on the emotional development of Woody Harrelson. TO The Hollywood Reporter he said that he was an angry child and for a long time he had a lot of anguish inside, becoming a quarrelsome teenager and a young man easy to get angry. To the Los Angeles Times confessed to slapping a teacher and being transferred to an institution for children with learning difficulties. “I used to go to bars and fight with guys who I thought were bullies. I have scars everywhere ».
Top 10 career roles of Woody Harrelson
His career is studded with successful films such as Who Doesn’t Jump White is, Indecent Proposal, Kingpin, Zombieland and The Hunger Games, as well as cult films such as The Thin Red Line, North Country, It is not a country for the elderly And Seven Psychopaths, but let’s take a closer look at his 10 best performances.
Indecent Proposal (1993)
A cult of the 90s together with the other film by Adrian Lyne Fatal Attractionwhich however shows the signs of aging, while Indecent Proposal has now entered pop culture to represent that there is a limit not to be crossed for money. While Robert Redford and Demi Moore all in all they offer poor proofs, Woody Harrelson artistically saves the entire film by offering an intense portrait of a young architect whose dreams have turned into debt, who accepts money from the billionaire he met in Las Vegas in exchange for a night of sex with his charming wife.
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Woody Harrelson has a key supporting role in this film from filmmaker Terrence Malick. His return to the lens after 20 years brought out tons of A-list actors who wanted to work with him. As the newcomers filled the lead roles, Malick assembled a roster of actors for the supporting parts including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, John Travolta, George Clooney and John Cusack. Harrelson plays a platoon leader and holds his own against the cast of stars.
Zombieland (2009)
Woody Harrelson had one of the best box office hits, coinciding with critical acclaim for this post-apocalyptic comic horror film directed by Ruben Fleischer in which zombiescontrary to what happens in all horror films where they always have a very bad end, they have conquered the planet. Zombieland stands alone as a unique version of the genre.
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
First hilarious and successful collaboration of Woody Harrelson with screenwriter and director Martin McDonagh this film was destined to be launched only in the direct-to-video market, but, thanks to the enthusiastic reception of audiences and critics, it achieved global distribution. Woody is the gangster Charlie Costello determined to recover at all costs his beloved dog who is kidnapped by the declining actor, Billy. The story and the characters are used by Marty, a screenwriter in search of tranquility to write a film entitled, in fact Seven psychopaths, to finish the script.
It is not a country for old people (2007)
A masterpiece of writing and directing by the Cohen Brothers, and acting by the entire stellar cast, including Woody Harrelsonwho plays Vietnam veteran and hitman Carson Wells, a former colleague of the terrifying sociopath Anton Cigurh, played by Javier Bardem. In this splendid cameo Harrelson manages with a few touches to give an absolute depth to the whole merciless hunt for Cigurh and the briefcase full of money, being fooled by his own presumption and vanity of being the only one who can save the money, as he knows Cigurh’s ruthlessness and psychic distress very well.
Born killers (1994)
He accomplished 25 years in 2019 the most controversial film in the filmography of Woody Harrelson: this film directed by Oliver Stone is a sarcastic and sharp condemnation of the public’s passion, fueled by the media, for criminals and crime stories. Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play a late version of Bonnie and Clyde who kill for the notoriety that can derive from it.
Three Posters Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
At the second collaboration with Martin McDonagh Woody Harrelson he plays the sheriff of the small town of Ebbing tormented by a huge one Frances McDormand, as Mildred, a mother seeking justice for her raped and murdered daughter. Sheriff Bill Willoughby soon vanishes from the screen, committing suicide before cancer ravages him, but his letters to Mildred and his second, played by Sam Rockwell, put two antagonists on the same side for the first time, that of research. of the truth. Sam Rockwell blows him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but the contribution of Woody Harrelson what makes this film exceptional is indisputable.
Who does not jump white is (1992)
Lovers of cinema and basketball put this film among the five best films that tell the second American national sport from a political angle with a skilful balance of irony and denunciation. Contrary to the title Woody Harrelsonplays a gambling-debt plagued white who can play basketball (and even well) and plays street tournaments in the suburbs of marginalized blacks for money. racism, who respond with racism in reverse. One of Harrelson’s first film roles in the transition period from TV to the big screen, he remains one of the actor’s best performances.
The messenger (2009)
Woody Harrelson received his second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for this film about an alcoholic army officer whose job is to inform families of those killed in action. L’Orlando Sentinel enthusiastic about Woody’s great performance as an actor he explained that: “Harrelson manages to make layers of pain palpable under a hard but porous crust. It could be the best interpretation of his career and certainly deserves the consideration of the Oscar ».
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Larry Flynt – Beyond the scandal (1996)
As the pornographic publisher Harry Flynt, Woody Harrelson fully explores all his incredible acting skills, embodying the excruciating pain of the loss of his partner, (a surprising Courtney Love), an assassination attempt that leaves him paralyzed and, finally, a battle for free speech in the US Supreme Court against right-wing evangelist Jerry Falwell (which Flynt actually won). With his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor he came for Woody Harrelson an avalanche of criticism and controversy, as well as the anger of feminists for playing a champion of the exploitation of the female body, whereas the screenplay insisted on the battle for free speech.
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