Woody Harrelson Takes on LBJ’s Complicated legacy
Woody Harrelson and Rob Reiner hated Lyndon B. Johnson.... Until they made a movie about him.
Woody Harrelson’s primary residence is a beachfront home on Maui, but in the past year, he has spent as much time in Hawaii as your typical honeymooner. On this sun-blessed October morning, the actor is in New York City promoting his performance as America’s 36th president. LBJ is one of six films in 2017 that star Harrelson, and yet he insists, “I’m a lazy motherfucker.”
Harrelson is athletic and boyish and still equipped with the goofy, gap-toothed grin that made Woody Boyd such a beguiling character on more than a quarter-century ago. He appears to be a decade younger than his 56 years but swears he is exhausted. “I much prefer to be a
