I’ve been in situations where another interviewer ruined things for me before I walked in, I’ve been in situations where the other person obviously didn’t want to be there or discuss the thing they were promoting, and I’ve had situations where lunch was obviously a higher priority than talking to me. I have walked into plenty of rooms where as soon as I sat down, I knew things weren’t going to work. A successful interview is like a two-person magic trick, where you make it look like you’re actually having a relaxed normal conversation about something, and it takes both ends to make an interview work. Just the idea that you’re going to have this forced conversation and try to create something that feels like actual intimacy in a set time period on a set subject… it’s an illusion. That interview is awful, but I don’t think that’s Harrelson’s fault. The Reddit thing was a case of Woody simply not being ready for a truly unfiltered encounter with The Internet in all its glory, and then the VICE writer walked into a room where the interview subject had just been roughed up a bit, and then seemed to misread the entire thing. The thing is, I think it’s sort of an unfair pile-on. Taken as a one-two punch, it was not the most flattering week of press for Harrelson overall, and it would be easy to assume he’s a bad interview in general. This is right on the heels of a fairly disastrous appearance that Harrelson made at Reddit. I read a piece this week in which a writer railed on Woody Harrelson for what sounded like a fairly terrible interview.
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