Woody Harrelson remembers ‘White Males Cannot Leap’

Woody Harrelson’s profession was going at full steam by the point 1993 rolled round.

The Midland, Tex.-born actor had risen to fame, in fact, because the dim-witted however lovable bartender he shared a reputation with on Cheers (1985-1983) alongside Ted Danson, Shelley Lengthy and firm. He’d been a highschool soccer participant on a workforce coached by Goldie Hawn in Wildcats (1986), and hustled his approach round L.A. basketball courts with Wesley Snipes in White Males Can’t Leap (1992).

Hardly ever, although, as he labored on these tasks — with these famed co-stars — did Woody’s mom, Diane, come see him at work.

That every one modified when Harrelson was employed on Indecent Proposal, the hit romantic drama launched in theaters 30 years in the past Sunday.

Harrelson and Demi Moore starred as highschool sweethearts David and Diana, whose marriage is put to the check as they’re vacationing in Las Vegas when a rich stranger performed by Robert Redford gives them a million {dollars} to spend the night time with Diana.

“My mother was fairly psyched,” Harrelson informed us throughout a Position Recall interview (watch above, with Indecent Proposal beginning at 3:07).

“She didn’t come to go to me on set a lot [but] when Robert Redford was within the film, she got here to set for positive. She was like just a little woman, like just a little college woman. It was incredible.”

Redford fanning out apart, Harrelson has usually praised his mom in interviews.

“I do really feel she was a fantastic affect on me and instilled loads of good values,” he informed the Guardian in 2018. “Simply the best way you deal with individuals, behaving honorably, which I don’t all the time do, however she was a fantastic position mannequin for that and nonetheless is.”

Harrelson was raised principally solo by his mom, who moved the household to Ohio after his father, Charles, an expert hitman, was incarcerated for murdering a grain vendor. Charles Harrelson was later sentenced to life in jail for assassinating a district decide, and died in 2007.