Woody Harrelson refuses to own a cell phone, doesn’t want to be ‘readily available’

Woody Harrelson does not acknowledge present day-working day technology.

On his new podcast, SiriusXM’s “Where Every person Knows Your Identify” with Ted Danson, Harrelson informed guest Kristen Bell that he does not possess a mobile cell phone.

“And enable me reveal some thing about Woody,” Danson reported. “He doesn’t have a phone. He’s just one of individuals bullies in existence that make other folks carry his cell phone for him.”

Woody described when which is “not specifically correct,” he enjoys limiting obtain to himself.

“Well, I just really do not like to have, you know, to be easily obtainable to any human remaining at any time,” Harrelson explained. Bell chimed in, “I hear that. It doesn’t come to feel fantastic.”

Woody elaborated declaring, “That’s not the purpose. I like to be in touch with persons in a way, but I really don’t like the appendage on my appendage.”

The actor ongoing, “You know, I designed a factor where I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna set a two-hour restrict on my phone,’ simply because this is, I have provided it up now a few, three and a fifty percent years, but again then I was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to established this restrict. Two hrs.’ It is like 9:30. You know, I’ve currently hit my limit at 9:30, so I woke up, and I have been on it two hours previously because, cuz you know how it can just maintain likely and going.”

Danson asked if the “limits” Harrelson had established for himself when he did individual a mobile mobile phone ended up strictly for phone calls or for applying applications and texting cherished types.

“Texting and, nicely, I really don’t know about applications, but texting and also, you know, whichever, so I just finally, I preferred to be in a position to be in a, like if I have been out to evening meal with you, ideal? And there’s just a lull in the dialogue,” he claimed. “Oh, I’m on the cell phone. ‘Oh yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.’ You know, and I appear and I’m back down to the machine and this.”

Bell, who shares two daughters with her partner Dax Shepard, admitted that her small children have experienced to get in touch with her out for remaining on her mobile mobile phone.

“But I imagine the moment you understand that, it reshapes, at minimum it did for me, my entire perspective, and I think my children experienced a good deal to do with that, as well, exactly where I realized they had been conversing to me and my youngsters are also pretty, like, emotionally articulate,” Bell claimed. 

“So, if I’d be checking something, even if it would be the most legitimate thing at any time, like, ‘Oh, her Jujitsu class is changing times tomorrow. I will need to convey to the other moms.’ Whatever. A legitimate point and just one of my young children would glance at me and go, ‘I just experience like you’re disconnected. I really do not have your entire consideration, Mother,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh f—,’” she ongoing.

Bell shared now that her daughters Lincoln, 10, and Delta, 8, are at the age in which they are making her knowledgeable of how substantially time she spends on her cell cellphone, she is now “over the hump of addiction” to her gadget.

“When they get household from college, I do put it down. I place it upstairs,” she mentioned. “It’s not in my ether when we’re bopping about the household at evening and I truly feel, I actually appreciate being a lot less linked to it. It is these kinds of a trick.”

Danson included, “Yeah. I admire what you do with phones by the way, Woody. I want to emulate that extra.”

Danson and Harrelson reconnected 30 decades soon after their hit sitcom “Cheers” ended to launch their podcast, which premieres just about every Wednesday on the SiriusXM app and anywhere podcasts are offered.

Just about every week, the actors will be bringing movie star attendees on to dive further into their life and uncover information that fans may not know.