Exclusive: Woody Harrelson on playing Carnage in Venom Let There Be Carnage and working with Andy Serkis again

Coming out this week from Sony Pictures is Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the highly-anticipated sequel to Venom opening in theaters on October 1, 2021.

Academy Award-nominated actor Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters.

Directed by Andy Serkis, the film also stars Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, and introduces Woody Harrelson in the role of the villain Cletus Kasady/Carnage.

When we last met Eddie Brock and Venom, both played by Tom Hardy, the two had formed an uneasy alliance. Eddie, the dogged but self-centered reporter, and Venom, the alien symbiote who takes hold of Eddie’s body, both relied on each other to survive: Eddie could do much better in life with Venom’s eat-or-be-eaten (literally) m.o., and Venom had to be reined in by Eddie’s finely-tuned sense of moral justice. They agreed that they needed each other… but they didn’t have to like it.

After their epic breakup, though, it becomes clear that neither is going to make it on his own. When part of the symbiote leaps into Cletus Kasady moments before his execution, the serial killer becomes host for Carnage, an even-larger, even-deadlier, and much-more-malevolent spawn of the alien, ruthless and pure evil. 

For Harrelson, who first appeared as Cletus Kasady in the mid-credits scene of Venom (2018), he re-teams with Serkis after the two acted together in War of the Planet of the Apes. He’s also working with Harris again after they first acted together in the thriller After the Sunset. That was Harris’ first-ever Hollywood movie. He’s currently seen in the Netflix action film Kate opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales spoke to Harrelson about working with Serkis and how much fun he had with the role.