Woody Harrelson faced a tough crowd Sunday at the Actor Awards, as he presented Harrison Ford with the night’s Life Achievement Award.
The Natural Born Killers star began his time at the podium at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in downtown Los Angeles with a joke about the fact that most of the people in the room would be losers. After his words were met with mostly silence, he replied, “OK, that’s what I expected.”
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He forged ahead roasting Ford, though, teasing that he was there to honor One Battle After Another star Leonardo DiCaprio.
“You have more talent in your little finger than I have in my little finger,” Harrelson said once he located the honoree in the audience. He continued, “Of all the actors in the world, you’re one of them.” And “everyone in this industry… knows you.”
When Harrelson heard some laughs, he thanked the crowd for “warming up a little.”
Harrison Ford stars in ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ (1989)
Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd.
EW staff in the audience confirm that the room was very cold the entire night, with even the best jokes being met with tepid laughs.
Harrelson noted that the Indiana Jones actor had asked him to present him with the award about a month ago over email, which he knew was serious, since Ford usually only texts. This is a “friendship impediment” Harrelson noted, because he’s the opposite.
But Harrelson said ford noted to him that he had confessed that his first choices had been Helen Mirren, Kamala Harris, but he was just “happy to make the podium.”
At one point, Harrelson noted that “you guys are tough,”which did make the audience roar, particularly Harrelson’s former Cheers costar Ted Danson.
Harrelson noted that he and Ford had become friends after he followed the actor into a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles, after seeing him. Ford invited him to lunch, and Harrelson found him to be a storyteller that he could laugh with.
Then he got serious, “Whatever he’s doing, we know we are in the hands of a master.” Harrelson lauded his friend for using his platform for good causes, including conservation.
When he was wrapping up, Harrelson mentioned Ford’s work in carpentry and joked that he didn’t know how to work his coffee machine. There were a lot of laughs.
“You guys are finally getting it!” Harrelson said.
Ford was an “esteemed, living legend” and that the roast was partly to discourage his other friends from asking him to present an award to them, he said.
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