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(via Woody Harrelson Profile - Woody Harrelson Rampart Interview - Esquire)

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“I was on a bus and some girl sees me blowing my nose,” Harrelson is saying of his early years trying to make it as an actor in New York. “I had acne all over my face, which I’d had for years and years. And she’s like: ‘Hey, you’re lactose intolerant. If you quit dairy, all these symptoms you got will be gone in three days.’ I was like twenty-four. And I was like,No way. But three days later: gone.

“So I started thinking to myself, Jeez, I’ve always been told nothing but ‘Milk does a body good.’ It’s a fundamental thing. So from there it was like, What else are they lying about? I just started realizing: There are all these things we’re brought up to believe that are just a total hoax, just bullshit advertising, you know?”

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Woody Harrelson is a raw vegan and eco-radical, a close friend of Julia Butterfly Hill, that grrl who lived in the tree. He’s gotten himself arrested demonstrating and planting hemp seeds. He prefers to ride only in energy-efficient cars. If the air-conditioning is on, he’ll ask you to turn it off. “You know how hard it is to be in Austin, Texas, in July and not be exposed to perpetual AC?” It seems like everywhere he looks, somebody is running a leaf blower, “chasing around one fucking leaf for five minutes … only to have the neighbor’s gardener blow it back into their yard the next day.”

He doesn’t eat sugar or flour. He doesn’t eat dairy. He doesn’t consume meat. He looks more like thirty-nine than fifty. He does consume marijuana, but preferably via a vaporizer, which is said to be healthier but kind of lacks the same punch as smoking. He lives with his family on a working organic farm on Maui — biodiesel tractor, five different kinds of avocado trees, tons of coconuts. When his eldest daughter turned four, after more than two years of agitation, she was allowed to sample chicken for the first time. Harrelson lobbied for a total experience, including a backyard slaughter. Mom opted for store-bought. “Tastes just like tofu,” his daughter concluded.

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His father, Charles Voyde Harrelson, was an encyclopedia salesman and an armed robber who claimed to have participated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was sentenced to two life terms in connection with the 1979 assassination of U. S. district judge John H. Wood. In 1995, he tried to escape from the Atlanta penitentiary using a homemade ladder but didn’t get far. In 1998, Woody led an unsuccessful effort to secure a new trial for his father, who claimed that evidence had been suppressed in his first trial. He died in his sleep in his cell in 2007 in a supermax prison in Colorado. Google him. There’s a mug shot from 1960. The resemblance is uncanny — Woody circa White Men. ”I look at him as someone who could be a friend more than someone who was a father,” Harrelson has said.

There is a quote from Carl Jung that Harrelson likes: “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”