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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Woody Harrelson

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6908 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Woody Harrelson is a notorious television and film actor. After a brief stint in New York Theater at the start of his career, he made his on-screen debut on NBC’s “Cheers,” regarded as one of the best TV shows of all time. He has gained acclaim for his roles in movies like The People Vs. Larry Flynt, No Country for Old Men, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri. With over 60 movies in his portfolio, Harrelson acts across a range of genres, including comedy, drama, and thriller. Over the course of his career, he has been nominated for three Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, and he has been the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award.  ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0

Tetrogrammaton

0:02.0

Tetragrammaton

0:05.0

Tetracket

0:10.0

Sometimes I feel like these characters I've gotten to play, like I feel like, ah, I resonate with this character, you know, already, just as soon as I've read the script or read the book or whatever it is that introduces me to the character.

0:38.3

But as for how it works, I don't know.

0:42.3

It's just about a certain believability.

0:45.3

If the audience believes you, then you're golden and if they don't, you're screwed.

0:50.3

And then inside of that, you're just hoping to do one or two things that are interesting and not

0:55.5

be just totally boring which i've also been guilty of yeah do you have to believe the character

1:02.8

yeah that's for sure if i don't believe the character, there's a disconnect that I can't get over.

1:14.2

The writing is always the number one thing, you know, because even if you get the greatest

1:19.2

director, which you would always think that's number one.

1:22.5

But even if you get Scorsese or someone great, they can't necessarily fix a broken script.

1:30.2

You know, that's the weird thing is I have accepted parts and movies or in a play or

1:38.9

whatever that I afterward have no idea why did I do that.

1:47.5

You know, I never connected to it it it never resonated right with me why did I do it so I just come away feeling like somewhat dirty from it you know

1:55.6

like I just sold myself somehow you know but even those cases, do you get better at your craft every time you do your job?

2:07.6

I think when you do your job badly, you don't really get better at your craft.

2:13.5

And I've felt the, not outward critique of that,

2:21.1

but my internal critique of that, even lately.

2:24.8

I would think after all this time, okay, surely I'm not going to be doing stuff

2:32.4

that I'm not proud of or being a part of something I'm not proud of.

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