As a result, Harrelson started to take on take on projects he had never really considered before — specifically big franchises like The Hunger Games, Planet of the Apes, and Star Wars — and it wound up totally changing his career.
Woody Harrelson famously started his career playing farmboy-turned-bartender Woody Boyd on the television series Cheers, but in the mid-1990s successfully changed perceptions of his abilities with films like Natural Born Killers and The People vs. Larry Flynt (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination).
This seemingly put him in a comfortable enough position to move away from the industry for a bit while taking care of his kids, but that comfort level didn’t still exist when he returned.