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 Long and firm. He’d been a highschool soccer participant on a crew coached by Goldie Hawn in Wildcats (1986), and hustled his means round L.A. basketball courts with Wesley Snipes in White Men Can’t Jump (1992).
Rarely, although, as he labored on these initiatives — with these famed co-stars — did Woody’s mom, Diane, come see him at work.
That all 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 affords them a million {dollars} to spend the evening with Diana.
“My mom was pretty psyched,” Harrelson informed us throughout a Role Recall interview (watch above, with Indecent Proposal beginning at 3:07).
“She didn’t come to visit me on set much [but] when Robert Redford was in the movie, she came to set for sure. She was like a little girl, like a little school girl. It was fantastic.”
Redford fanning out apart, Harrelson has typically praised his mom in interviews.
“I do feel she was a great influence on me and instilled a lot of good values,” he informed the Guardian in 2018. “Just the way you treat people, behaving honorably, which I don’t always do, but she was a great role model for that and still is.”
Harrelson was raised largely solo by his mom, who moved the household to Ohio after his father, Charles, knowledgeable hitman, was incarcerated for murdering a grain supplier. Charles Harrelson was later sentenced to life in jail for assassinating a district choose, and died in 2007.
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