Woody Harrelson possible received’t be responding to any texts or calls in a well timed trend.
The Oscar-nominated actor revealed on a current episode of the The place All people Is aware of Your Identify podcast that he hasn’t frequently carried a cellphone with him in years as a result of he discovered himself hooked on the machine at one level.
“Let me clarify one thing about Woody: He doesn’t have a telephone,” his podcast co-host and Cheers co-star Ted Danson mentioned. “He’s a type of bullies in life that make different folks carry his telephone for him. ‘Hey, we have to know one thing instantly, name Woody.’ And I simply kinda chuckle at whoever says that to me.”
“Effectively, that’s not precisely true,” Harrelson responded. “I simply don’t prefer to should be available to any human being at any time. And plus, that’s not the explanation. I prefer to be in contact with folks, in a manner, however I don’t just like the appendage on my appendage.”
The True Detective actor defined that he gave up utilizing a cellphone three and a half years in the past as a result of he was spending an excessive amount of time on it.
“I made a factor the place I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna set a two-hour restrict on my telephone,’” he mentioned. “It’s like 9:30. I’ve already hit my restrict at 9:30. So I awakened and I’ve been on it two hours already, as a result of you know the way it will possibly simply hold going and going.”
Harrelson mentioned he even caught himself getting distracted by the telephone when he was at dinner with somebody and there was a “lull within the dialog.” He additionally famous that he wasn’t sometimes utilizing apps or taking calls, however fairly answering a whole lot of textual content messages.
“I by no means used it as a telephone, ever,” the White Home Plumbers recalled. “Texting.”
Whereas Harrelson now lives a life undistracted by know-how, Danson admitted, “I like what you do with telephones, by the way in which, Woody. I have to emulate that.”