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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Woody Harrelson (2019)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Politics, News, Celebrity, Music, Broadway, Society & Culture, Interview, Movies, Pop Culture, Tv & Film, Technology, Tv

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Over a 35-year career in Hollywood, Woody Harrelson has remained Woody: the one-of-a-kind guy you want to hang out with. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the legendary actor in Austin, Texas to talk about his long run in show business, from the early years on Cheers to big budget turns in The Hunger Games to his latest Netflix film The Highwaymen, and he opens up about his biggest influences along the way. (Original broadcast date: March 17, 2019)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:05.3

My thanks is always for clicking and listening.

0:08.0

I'm just excited for you right now that you're about to hear my conversation with Woody

0:11.9

Herylson.

0:12.9

Have nothing to do with me, but everything to do with the legend, Woody.

0:17.2

So here, let me paint a picture for you.

0:19.8

Austin, Texas, South by Southwest, Woody is premiering his new film down there, The Netflix

0:25.4

Film, The Highway Men.

0:27.0

It's about a couple of Texas Rangers.

0:29.6

It's a true story who come out of retirement to pursue and eventually kill Bonnie and Clyde.

0:34.3

True story.

0:35.3

You kind of only know in history the Bonnie and Clyde side of it, and they're these sort

0:39.1

of counter-culture heroes and portrayed as Robin Hood somehow.

0:43.0

This is the other side of it.

0:44.5

From law enforcement, true story, it's Woody Herylson and Kevin Costner partners.

0:49.4

It's almost like a little true detective thing, but it's 1934.

0:54.2

So here's the visual I want for you.

0:55.8

There are outdoors along the Colorado River in Austin.

1:00.7

I'm sitting there in a director's chair by the river and down comes Woody.

1:05.0

Woody's wearing a denim jacket, a cowboy hat, sweatpants and slippers.

1:12.4

What happens a lot of times in these interviews is sometimes people will show up actors, rock

1:16.3

stars, whoever they are, and they'll have behind them a stylus with a hanging bag and

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