TV Talk

(Woody Harrelson’s father, Charles, in 1968, having murdered a Texas businessman,  was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, released after five. In 1979, on parole,in a murder-for-hire, he shot and killed a Federal Judge, subsequently being given two life sentences). “One day, filming, this woman walks past and says,’Your father should’ve gotten the chair.’ My dad wasn’t around that much in my childhood, I was seven when he left. I didn’t know he was in prison, found out oddly enough over the radio. My mother had neglected to tell me. I visited him, he always said he was innocent. What he’s done certainly needs to be addressed, but if you sat down, rapped with him, he would really make you laugh. My Dad has done a lot of illegal things but only a handful can do what he does with a deck of cards, so why would he need to commit a crime like that, for money?”

— Woody Harrelson