Woody Harrelson remembers ‘White Men Can’t Jump’

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

The Midland, Tex.-born actor had risen to fame, after all, 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 crew coached by Goldie Hawn in Wildcats (1986), and hustled his method round L.A. basketball courts with Wesley Snipes in White Males Can’t Soar (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 provides them a million {dollars} to spend the evening with Diana.

“My mother was fairly psyched,” Harrelson advised 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 a bit of lady, like a bit of college lady. It was incredible.”

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

“I do really feel she was a fantastic affect on me and instilled a whole lot of good values,” he advised the Guardian in 2018. “Simply the way in which you deal with folks, 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 largely 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 choose, and died in 2007.