Chet Hanks got “Run” tips from Woody Harrelson via “Oblar E -Post”

Chet Hanks Got some tips from other basketball players on the screen, Woody HarrelsonBefore he’s lead role in Netflix Operation.

While he made his talk show debut on Wednesday, March 12 the episode of Tonight show with Jimmy FallonHanks, 34 – playing Los Angeles Waves Point Guard Travis Bug Operation – Told the host that he turned to Harrelson, 63, for advice before filming the series.

Hanks recalled to reach out to Matthew McConaughey55, in an attempt to get Harrelson’s number. But it was a while before he got an answer.

“He doesn’t have a phone, which I completely respect,” explained Hanks by Harrelson, who played former college basketball player Billy Hoyle in the 1992 movie White men can’t jump.

“I think he said somewhere that he doesn’t want to be easily accessible to someone at any time because he lives in Hawaii. He’s in Hawaii. Why do you want a phone, do you know? So I respect it completely, “Hanks continued.

“But he came back to me. It was from some unclear e -post. You know when you get FaceTime but it’s an e -mail message, it’s not a number? It’s like an iCloud or whatever. I was:” Who’s this? “He was like” it’s woody, man, “he continued.

The actor, who is the son of Draw Wilson and Tom Hanksadmitted that he is “horrible” on basketball, but said that Harrelson was “actually really good at basketball.”

“So there wasn’t much he could tell me. He told me” just walk around with basketball with you when you go to your daily, “he told Fallon about the advice he had received.

“I did it a little, for a couple of days,” he laughed.

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HANKS – who first met Fallon when he was a child on the set of war drama in 2001 Band of Brotherscreated by his father Tom and director Steven Spielberg – Had previously told the host that he was not big on the basketball court.

“I’m horrible. It is actually, as I am a pretty athletic guy but it’s the one like the sport … it’s honestly pathetic. Like watching me trying to join and play a pickup game? It’s really boring, “he insisted and joked he” lied “to get past Operation auditions steps.

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Inspired by Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie BusThe Operation Follows Isla Gordon (Kate Hudson), which suddenly has the task of taking over the family’s activities: Los Angeles waves. Despite skepticism, Gordon is keen to prove that she is the right person for the job.

The show – created by Elaine Ko, Mindy KalingThe Ike Barinholtz and David Stassen – also stars Brenda SongDrew Tarver, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, Toby Sandeman, Jay Ellis and Max Greenfield.

Operation Now flows on Netflix.