Woody Harrelson about his film Lost in London: "My ego is pissed off"

Let's celebrate one of the great annoyances of celebrities: Woody Harrelson was lost – and lost – in London. "The 40-year-old actor was sued by 14 police officers after running from one taxi to the other, before running away on foot," the June 7 Evening Standard reported. 2002.

"He was arrested on suspicion of causing damage £ 300k to a black taxi [which] He took the actor outside the Chinawhite nightclub of Piccadilly yesterday around 2 am … Agents found the actor … He was taken to the Belgravia police station, where he spent the rest of the night in a cell before being released on bail. . "

At that time, no other "Woodygate" incident was reported in the week at another London bar. This resulted in an orgy at four. A few days later, the film also embodied the former role of the former star of the famous 80s American sitcom, Cheers: on the cover of the British tabloid Sunday.

It was not the most propitious to the premieres of Harrelson's first London stage appearance, in On An Average Day. Rather than bury the incidents, however, he chose to remind the world. And he did it 15 years later, after relaunching his career with HBO's True Detective franchise and The Hunger Games franchise alongside Jennifer Lawrence. He shot himself a movie about the events in a movie that he called Lost in London. He shot it live during the night of January 20 to 21, 2017, without editing, replaying or dubbing of licensed stuntmen – and broadcast it live in 500 cinemas around the world.

Harrelson, 57, has now figured it out by making Lost in London available for download and on DVD. Why revisit your shame? "I asked myself this question a bit," he says. In Atlanta, where he films Zombieland 2. "It sounds like a redemption story, or at least a guy who needs redemption.This is a thematic about someone who has a little bit of everything and does it not, and risk everything, and then we hope to have another chance.

The challenges of shooting, one shot, of a movie in central London at night were endless. The star, director and subject recognizes that his own performance leaves something to be desired. Logistics was beyond the experience of anyone. "There was a team of his and a score and they had worked on the London Olympics and marathons, and they said nothing was up to the challenge. It was something that had not been done before. All antennas on rooftops within a radius of three kilometers around London. Maybe if I started again … I would not have fired this way, "he laughs.

Can he also regret reminding his wife Laura – who plays in Eleanor Matsuura's movie – of his escapades? "Laura has always been supportive, even when I do not deserve it. But especially on this point: she typed my script and always thought it was a cool project, despite her personal nature. "

He adds that his literary inspiration is the author Henry Miller. "I like him saying something. He will make racist comments or comments about women who are only disgusting. Yet, I love him for his honesty. "

Harrelson recently made a no-nonsense spell in London and filmed Solo: A Star Wars. But he admits to having a top-down relationship with the city, prior to the events of 17 years ago.

"I came to London when I was on Cheers," he said about the sitcom aired between 1982 and 1993. "I did not have an excellent experience, I did not understand it. I did not think that people were really mean – at least a lot of people I had met were going to some kind of club, they see what you're wearing and you're not coming in. things.

"In fact, there are a lot of nice people," he retorts, "but in this kind of scenario, it could get ugly, the more time I spent there, the more I felt that I started to like him. "

The new version of Lost in London begins with colleagues such as Ted Danson, Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence who gather around the water cooler – a video camera for iPhone – to unanimously condemn the vanity of adventure from Harrelson. What do they do with finished work? "Some of the people who have responded best and made me very happy belong to this industry. Ron Howard really loved that, and the other directors I care about. "As for Jennifer, I do not think she saw it. Ted Danson? I do not know if I've heard from him either, "he says.

Is Harrelson happy to have done it? "Yeah, my ego was screwed up," he adds, laughing again. As he sees it, however, his mediocre play and mortification in real life matter less than the fact that he managed a night of Lost in London. And without being arrested this time.

Lost in London is available for digital download on Monday and on DVD on March 4