Not many American actors make the transition from TV to movies, but even fewer cross over from Hollywood to Europe. Four years ago, while still a bankable name in commercial studio franchises, Woody Harrelson swanned effortlessly into the international arthouse, playing the Marxist captain of a doomed cruise liner in Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund’s second Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness . This year Harrelson returns to Cannes in Full Phil , the latest by Quentin Dupieux , France’s wizard of odd, acting with Kristen Stewart in a film the director describes as “ Emily in Paris in hell.”

DEADLINE: How did you get involved with Quentin Dupieux?

WOODY HARRELSON : There’s a lady who works with me, Ilya [Bronchtein]. She was my assistant, and then she became a producer.…