Woody Harrelson

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Woody Harrelson is a proper farmhouse cheddar, familiar on the surface with a distinctive bite that arrives when you least expect it. He brings a casual warmth to every role, until the moment he decides not to. Start with Cheers. Woody the bartender is all affable charm, the kind of easy presence that lets a scene float along. Natural Born Killers showed an entirely different grain, a chaotic, amoral presence that is both frightening and magnetic. The People vs. Larry Flynt asked him to carry a whole film as a deeply flawed public figure, and he made him recognisable, never just a caricature. No Country for Old Men gave him a small turn as a man in the wrong place, and his quiet resignation stays with you. True Detective saw him as a Louisiana detective whose comfortable life is slowly unravelling, playing the collapse with a slow burn. In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, he is a small town sheriff under siege, and Harrelson gives him dignity without making him a saint. He has a way of making the extraordinary feel everyday, and the everyday feel like it could curdle at any moment. Like the best farmhouse cheddar, the flavour is always distinct, always satisfying, and sharper than you remember.