Needless to say, the actor is “open-minded” to the idea of aliens existing.
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Turns outWoody Harrelsonwas drawing from real-life experience for hisSaturday Night Live"Close Encounter" sketch.
I mean, I’m open-minded," Harrelson replied.
Woody Harrelson and Stephen Colbert.Credit:Scott Kowalchyk/CBS
“Have I had an alien experience?
You’re really asking me if I’ve had an alien experience?”
he asked, to the delight of the laughing studio audience.
Aidy Bryant, Jon Hamm, Kate McKinnon, Pedro Pascal, and Woody Harrelson during the ‘Close Encounter’ sketch on ‘SNL’.Chris Haston/NBC
But have you like seen a UFO?
‘Cause I have, I’ve seen stuff I can’t explain."
“I’ll admit, I have,” he finally answered.
“I wasn’t abducted.
Or maybe I was abducted and forgot,” he quipped.
“And then there’d be one over there, shoot over here, and there were several.
They just kept going across the sky.”
Some other world."
The kicker is that afterward, Harrelson said nobody stuck around to unpack the strange occurrence.
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“Nobody talked about it.
Literally, everybody just went inside and said nothing,” he shared.
“It was so freaky, even for me, as young as I was.”
So do aliens exist?
“Of course it’s true,” he told Colbert.
“Why wouldn’t it be true?”
“We met these two beautiful glowing aliens who took our hands and said welcome.
I’ve never felt so safe,” Harrelson says at one pointin the sketch.
“Little different for me,” McKinnon’s Colleen interjects.
“I was less cradled by light and more grabbed by a giant rusty claw.”
Watch Harrelson’s full conversation with Colbert above.
