Take a second – suppose again to the worst night time of your life. What occurred? Did you cheat in your loving associate? Drunkenly inform your mum to ‘fuck off’? Spend your life’s financial savings in a a on line casino? Now think about somebody’s making a movie about it – and you’ve got to play your self.

Introducing Woody Harrelson’s 2015 film Misplaced In London, out there now to stream free on Amazon Prime Video for the primary time. The slow-talking Texan obtained into a little bit of mischief throughout a 2002 night time out in Soho, London. Splashed throughout the papers the subsequent day had been his exploits, which included a drunken police chase in a taxi and the ensuing night time in a cell. 13 years later, he determined to make a film about it, shot stay and beamed into cinemas internationally.

We caught up with Woody throughout lockdown to hear all about this long-gestating business first – and the way he satisfied nation icon Willie Nelson, Hollywood heavyweight Owen Wilson and precise Bono to be part of his madcap undertaking.

Hey Woody, how’s lockdown treating you?

“Superb! I’ve been taking part in guitar a lot. I’m simply a basic-chord-kinda man, however I simply obtained The Beatles songbook and I need to get higher as a result of I love taking part in these songs.”

Candy! You bought guitar legend Willie Nelson to cameo in ‘Misplaced In London’ – how’d you handle that one?!

“Properly, I was really calling Owen [Wilson] to discuss to him as a result of he’d agreed to be in it too. He was with Willie, who’s an previous good friend of mine, and he stated, ‘Why don’t you place me within the movie?’ I stated, ‘Properly, do you wanna be in it?’ and Willie stated ‘Yeah!’ So I wrote him in. That scene was gonna be an animated dream sequence, however it was significantly better to have Willie Nelson!”

Did you celebration after taking pictures wrapped?

“No, he was not feeling properly as a result of he came to visit actual late within the course of. His touring schedule is relentless, so he solely had a few days [to film in London] and he had hassle adjusting to the time distinction as a result of he simply got here from Texas. He wanted to relaxation.”

Was filming the entire thing stay and streaming into cinemas tremendous tough?

“Yeah, it was the dearth of sleep that almost killed me. There’s the stress too, after all, however lack of sleep is brutal.”

I hear there was a fuck-up within the jail sequence – what occurred?

“Oh yeah, I bear in mind it clearly. It’s really fairly humorous though very uncomfortable for us on the time. When my character will get arrested, there’s the interrogation scene after which the cop leaves. He’s supposed to come again in earlier than he lastly places me within the cell. However he by no means got here again in… he forgot. That sense of panic in a stay state of affairs, it’s about as antsy as I’ve ever felt as a performer! Anyway, it got here off ultimately, somebody reminded him to come again in!”

Yikes, and the way did you get Bono to placed on a Jamaican accent and fake to be excessive?

“Bono’s been a buddy of mine for a very long time, he’s an unbelievably nice man. In that scene, [when Harrelson has been arrested], I thought it might be humorous to have the man making an attempt to curry favour with this Irish cop in London by ringing Bono. Anyway, Bono was not solely up for it, he took what I had written and rewrote three paragraphs, all fully totally different! I stored the half about him speaking in a Jamaican accent, as a result of I thought it was simply great.”

Owen Wilson’s in it too. There’s a scene the place you’re each mocking one another – did you write the insults collectively?

“Yeah, Owen’s a nice author so he had a lot of nice enter. We really had three pages of insults which stored constructing and constructing. However Owen was like, ‘Come on man, that’s greater than you want’, however I wished to preserve going! He stated, ‘You gotta cease!’ so we ended up with about a third of what I wrote.”

‘Misplaced In London’ is the one movie you’ve directed – was as soon as sufficient?

“No, I need to do extra however I’ll let you know what, thank god I had the very best actors to work with as a result of all of the shit administrators have to do… I try not to be a burden on them now. A few of us in my career can be fairly needy – I don’t need to be a kind of. I’d like to direct one thing within the previous fashion: a number of takes and sufficient time to let the evolution of the scene happen.”

How’s ‘Venom 2’ coming alongside?

“I can’t actually say a lot about it however it was a nice expertise and I loved working with such a phenomenal director [Andy Serkis]. I simply love Tom [Hardy]. I have a actually enjoyable character.”

You lately recorded a local weather emergency video with Billie Eilish – what did you discuss?

“We each love [fashion designer] Dapper Dan – and we each coincidentally wore Dapper Dan outfits to the set! I actually appreciated Billie, it’s unbelievable how calm she is. To be that profoundly common and to be as centred as she is… I actually credit score her household as a result of she’s along with her brother and her mother and father on a regular basis. They’re a tight household they usually’ve not let all this unbelievable success dictate who they’re – which does occur a lot of the time.”

The rest within the pipeline?

“I’ve obtained an thought [for a film] that takes place fully in Eire. It’s a comedy, a lot of slapstick. However I higher preserve it below wraps in case I by no means observe by way of.”

Woody Harrelson’s ‘Misplaced In London’ is offered on Amazon Prime Video now