Harrelson has arguably had the biggest career of all his “Cheers” castmates. In the ’90s he starred in films like “The Cowboy Way,” “Kingpin,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt” and “Palmetto.” He took a brief break from film in the late ’90s into the early 2000s as he returned to theater. He directed and starred in several plays before returning to the big screen with 2003’s “Anger Management.” Since then he’s gone on to more than prove he’s capable of serious, intense performances, impressing critics and audiences with his roles in critically-acclaimed films and shows like “No Country For Old Men” and “True Detective.”
Of everyone in the cast, Harrelson’s probably got the biggest appeal to younger audiences, with Gen Z viewers remembering him fondly for his role as Haymitch in all four of “The Hunger Games” films, and as Merritt McKinney in those memed-to-death “Now You See Me” movies. Millennial viewers tend to love him for his role in “Zombieland,” the 2009 comedy-apocalypse movie where he starred alongside Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg.
He’s also a frequent guest of “Saturday Night Live,” having hosted it for a fifth time this year. That latest hosting gig was his most controversial, as he threw in an anti-vax conspiracy joke in the middle of his monologue. “The anarchist part of me, I don’t feel that we should have forced testing, forced masking and forced vaccination,” he told Variety when asked about the backlash to the monologue. “That’s not a free country.”
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