Woody Harrelson: answering questions and taking usernames!
Woody Harrelson is doing the rounds for his new movie Rampart, but in this age of viral buzz, press junkets just aren’t enough. These days, people don’t want to read the same canned answers asked by reporters and filtered through a PR agent: they want to directly interact with famous people. (Isn’t that why Twitter was invented?)
In less than two hours, Mr. Harrelson will be taking to Reddit’s AMA (Ask Me Anything) subforum, where for an hour he’ll be answering nerd questions about just how much marijuana he likes to smoke and some-such. So to stand out from the crowd and make sure the actor answers your query, here are some awesome questions to ask Woody Harrelson.
- When you pushed that paparrazo in the face after wrapping Zombieland and you told TMZ that you were still in character and thought he was a zombie, weren’t you worried that putting your fist right next to the mouth of an Infected might end up with you getting bitten? Wouldn’t it have just been better to take his head off with a shovel?
- Follow-up question: what kind of zombie knows how to use a camera? They only have the most rudimentary of motor skills.
- Your new film is about a renegade cop in Los Angeles in the 90s. As someone who has played both law enforcement and criminals, what are your thoughts on Occupy Wall Street’s clash with the Oakland police force?
- Okay so if you had to pick a post-apocalyptic zombie scenario would you rather be A) Trying to outrun several of those really fast zombies from 28 Days Later on the open road, or B) Trying to outsmart hoards of very slow zombies in a small apartment building.
- What was it like to work with acclaimed director Oliver Stone on Natural Born Killers?
- How much fun did you have on Will & Grace as Grace’s boyfriend Nathan? Is Debra Messing as nice on set as she seems?
-If forced to, would you terminate Debra Messing because she’s been bit by a zombie and is begging you to just finish her, or would it be too difficult to shoot her in the face while there is still a semblance of Grace Adler in her eyes?
-Who is your favorite Downton Abbey character and why?
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He bombed.
Spectacularly!
Don’t bother. It was a train wreck.
refused to answer anything that wasn’t about his movie and showed for about 15 minutes
Spectacular PR fiasco.
Hey Woody, ya blew it.
His PR people screwed him on this one. AMA means Ask Me Anything. Only a handful of questions were answered mostly vaguely and unnaturally twisted to be about Rampart. The reason this is a failure is that is was in now way mentioned that Woody would only answer questions about Rampart, his upcoming movie. I don’t blame Woody for not understanding how Reddit or an AMA works, but I do blame his PR people. Through their lack of research (which could have been done in an hour or 2) they managed to make Woody look bad, and make Reddit look ungrateful to outsiders (by completely disregarding how that community works). This fiasco is a result of the laziness and misunderstanding of Woody’s PR team.
I agree with you except this has nothing to do with reddit, it has everything to do with Woody. There have been many, many highly succesful, informative, and entertaining, and REAL (not fake like Woody’s) “AMA’s” done by people a lot more famous, popular, and busy, than Woody. The fact that he would get onto the board and spout off nonsense about his movie the way he (or his handlers) did, was just asking to be skewered. Claiming ignorance won’t help. Reddits’ like any other social gathering place, virtual or not, if you behave like an ass, you’re going to get thrown out on your ear… He might as well walked onto Letterman, or any other talk show and behaved like a boob. There’s no mystery to it. Nothing on reddit, everything on Woody…
I agree with you except this has nothing to do with reddit, it has everything to do with Woody. There have been many, many highly succesful, informative, and entertaining, and REAL (not fake like Woody’s) “AMA’s” done by people a lot more famous, popular, and busy, than Woody. The fact that he would get onto the board and spout off nonsense about his movie the way he (or his handlers) did, was just asking to be skewered. Claiming ignorance won’t help. Reddits’ like any other social gathering place, virtual or not, if you behave like an ass, you’re going to get thrown out on your ear… He might as well walked onto Letterman, or any other talk show and behaved like a boob. There’s no mystery to it. Nothing on reddit, everything on Woody…
Trying to upvote… oh, wait, there’s a like button. Novel.
+1 woody for pissing off the 4chan wannabes at reddit.
At least 4chan doesn’t have people surfing the webs defending reddit like crumpler here
Except for what you’re doing. Right now. With that comment.
Why “PersonFromReddit” and not redditor
Bill?
Murray?
no one will ever believe you…
In that case, I’ll just grab another fry… Nom
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I’ve met Woody and he came across as a good guy at that time. But his PR people suck, and the fact that he uses PR people to manipulate a forum based on honesty and forthrightness is indicative of a lack of geometry and theology.
I will be boycotting this movie (or at least not ripping some shitty cam torrent with unsynched audio), burning my Complete Cheers DVD collection and withdrawing my support for marijuana legalization (they’re never gonna catch me anyway).
Let that be a lesson to you Mr. Harrelson.
geometry and theology? what?
Confederacy of Dunces. One of the greatest books ever written.
WHat an ass
He came off like an ass. Big time bomb.
Wasnt him, was his PR from the looks of it. Also, fuck you observer.
sorry but I have to call BS. Just because Woody has a PR person, or a handler, doesn’t let him off the hook. It’s like me going out and behaving like a douche and then blaming my brain.. It wasn’t my fault, it was my brain’s!! My brain got me into this mess, don’t blame me!!! that’s BS…
that comparison is terrible
that interview sucked
Nice work PR guys, the reddit attempt was an abomination and a complete waste of time . This is the internet Woody, not a press conference.
Anyone notice Observer reporting like a 3rd grader. Half of those questions weren’t even the top voted ones! As well as the shoddy responses/no responses to a majority of those questions!
Hey let’s focus on the movie shall we? THE RAMPAGE?
You are all idiots!
Woody screwed the pooch on this one. Reddit is not Hollywood’s sandbox. Enjoy.
People asked him questions, he replied with “let’s talk more about my new movie!”. Horrible, horrible AMA.
He got hammered!