The debauched movie shoot that put Woody Harrelson to shame
Woody Harrelson is known for his indulgence of certain herbal remedies, but his drug use paled in comparison to everybody else around him.
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Sat 15 February 2025 19:15, UK
Having been one of Hollywoodâs most famous potheads for decades, everyone knows that Woody Harrelson has spent the bulk of his career engaged in a long-running love affair with copious amounts of marijuana.
He did kick his habit at one stage, though, only for Willie Nelson â a celebrity spliff enthusiast who puts almost everybody else to shame â to knock him off the wagon. For the most part, Harrelson had tended to stay away from the harder stuff, which made him the saintliest presence on a production defined by its excess away from the cameras.
One of the most controversial films of its era, Oliver Stoneâs Natural Born Killers, became a lightning rod for bad press. While the Quentin Tarantino-scripted crime thriller has evolved into a cult classic, the backlash towards the cross-country killing spree at the storyâs centre was vast and all-encompassing, especially when it was directly cited and implicated in several real-life crimes.
The negativity broke Harrelsonâs heart, but while the movie was shooting, it sounded like everyone was having a good time. Or, at the very least, a suitably drug-fuelled time. Harrelson will admit to smoking a remarkable amount of pot during his time, but even he was left staggered by the narcotics-induced debauchery that plagued Natural Born Killers both on the set and away from it.
Co-star Juliette Lewis shared Harrelsonâs affinity for weed, but she was also battling an addiction to painkillers and cocaine, which saw her check into rehab two years after Natural Born Killersâ 1994 release and ultimately quit drugs altogether at the age of only 22.
Stone, meanwhile, had a long history of experimenting with cocaine, hallucinogens, and psychedelics, including LSD, mescaline, mushrooms, and ayahuasca, and Robert Downey Jr was in a class of his own. The actor admitted that he shouldnât have been anywhere other than an emergency room at one stage during production, which left Harrelson as the unlikely voice of reason.
âI have to say, it was a zoo in the sense the actors were all on different kinds of trips,â the director told Esquire. âI think Woody was the most sane.â Harrelson was no stranger to a wild night out on the town, but he conceded that everyone else working on Natural Born Killers blew him out of the water.
âI will say this, and Oliver reassured me of this: I donât want to say I was the moral centre of this movie, but I was doing the least amount of drugs,â he confirmed. âWhich is, itâs never happened in my career or my life. And no oneâs ever done more drugs than me, but I was Mother Teresa on this one.â
Using Harrelson as the barometer of good behaviour even took him by surprise, which speaks to the sheer volume of drug-addled chaos Natural Born Killers had to contend with.
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