That time Michael J. Fox vomited cobra blood, as told by Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson presented pal Michael J. Fox with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2022 Governors Awards
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Woody Harrelson must have some of Hollywood’s most insane stories in his back pocket. The raconteur pulled out one such anecdote about his friend Michael J. Fox at the 2022 Governors Awards, where Fox was honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award honorary Oscar for his work with Parkinson’s disease.
Harrelson had some kind words about Fox’s work, saying that “he never asked for the role of Parkinson’s advocate, but it is his best performance,” and that the actor “sets the ultimate example of how to fight and how to live.”
Speaking of living, Harrelson shared a saucy story about visiting Fox in Thailand while he was filming Casualties Of War. “One night, Mike took us to the end of the jungle, and we stopped at this little hut, and Mike, you know, ran out of the car, this kid runs up to him, and he hands him like thousands of [Thai] baht, which probably amounted to about $16.”
The pair ran off, Harrelson recalled, and when he went to follow them, “I couldn’t believe it. I look in there and Mike is sitting next to this kid with dozens of cobras all around them ready to strike and—no jest—and the kid was toying with these cobras.”
“He taunted a bunch of these cobras and then he found the orneriest cobra, grabbed it by the neck, threw it in a cage with a mongoose, where I saw the craziest fight I’ve ever seen between any animals other than studio executives—you guys know I’m kidding,” Harrelson joked. “And the mongoose won, they took the snake, tied it by its tail, ran the blood out, half-filled four glasses with cobra blood and half with Thai whiskey.”
“Drinking the cobra blood is called ‘becoming brother to the snake,’” the Hunger Games star explained. “Mike and I drink lots of things together and he can hold his own—what can I say, he’s Canadian. But Mike promptly vomited his snake cocktail. Never could hold his cobra blood.”
Despite not having the stomach for cobra blood, Fox was nevertheless gracious about his friend’s ribbing. “I love you,” he said when he came to the stage to accept the award. “We did some damage. We did some damage in the ’80s.”
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Ah damn it, the Herb’s cheaping out and letting the AI write headlines now.
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Oh cool. So now we’re normalizing torturing animals so that white men may be entertained and partake of their innards. Cool.
evolution baby
Die.
*cobra blood spit-take*
I bet you’re really fun at parties.
Oh I am. I totally am.
Oh cool. You’re going to “parties” when some people are agoraphobic or have social anxiety. I bet you have neurotypical white-centric ideas of “fun” too. You are literally everything that is wrong with the entire planet. (/s oh god it’s hard to write like that even as a parody)
Well this is something old and from decades ago. And has been done before, for decades longer than that. It’s not a new thing. Settle down
So is the n-word. Cool.
Yikes how dare you. As a POC that is very offensive. I’m gonna have you go ahead and log off.
Cool.(Boy, I’m really in the vortex here)
Is that you James Acaster?
It’s a thai tradition, they thought the white guys were cool enough to participate
Oh cool. So now you’re normalizing the normalizing. Cool.
Counter point. Fuck snakes
I like snakes. I don’t mess with them, but they’re cool.
Alternate take, Fox was exploring the indigenous culture at a level deeper than casual tourism in an effort to better understand the people he interacted with rather than treat them as curiosities to be observed from a distance.
Are your caffeine spiders cruelty free?
Always!
he aint normalizing shit son, just tellin a tale…
Sounded more like taking part in a local custom that sounds barbaric to us.
it seems like the Thai folks were the ones spearheading the whole operation. Does that change your needless opinion?
it does not.
I mean you get the trophy for the wettest blanket of the day. Take a bow King.
“We did some damage in the 80s.”I wonder if that cobra blood story is just the tip of the iceberg with Michael J. Fox.
He’s an actor, so it probably is
Oh, Mike has some drinking stories. He was in a real dark place when he got his Parkinson’s diagnosis. Jeff Garland said he ran into Mike in Chicago, and Mike was so blackout drunk he had no memory of being in the city at all.
Then, after the beast was ritualistically and methodically tortured and slaughtered to the delight of the crowd, we ate its testicles! Ole !
Don’t kink shame me
To be fair to the Spanish, in a poll a decade ago, only 29% of Spaniards support bullfighting and this has probably gone down since. I don’t think it will last very much longer. Yes, it is “traditional” but so was fox hunting among the English and that was eventually banned there, as was dogfighting (as in involving actual dogs) in the US. I also suspect that most Thais don’t drink cobra blood nor would support the practice if asked.
Makes sense. You need some Elvis in you to be able keep your snake blood down, and Michael J. Fox, well, we all know what HE is.
I f*cking hate snakes. All snakes must die, but not like this. WTF is wrong with these people!!??
Saw headline, thought “Boy, that Doc Hollywood shoot must’ve been crazy!”Forgot all about Casualties of War….
Or maybe he went all method acting in Bright Lights, Big City and lived the real life of Jamie Conway for real.
Despite popular opinion, the mongoose is NOT a rodent. A mongoose is more closely related to a meerkat than it is to me.
Pretty odd story for famously vegan Woody Harrelson.
Even if he wasn’t vegan then, you wouldn’t think he would be rolling out a story of cool bros getting up to animal abuse.