Harrelson to TMZ: No Biggie, I Just Thought You Were A Zombie.

I can't wait for Seth Meyers to "Really?!" this one:

Once upon a last Wednesday, Woody Harrelson was en route to New York after wrapping "Zombieland," in Georgia -- a horror flick costarring Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone in which Harrelson was repeatedly attacked by, er, zombies. So when a TMZ paparazzo got in his face for a photograph, Harrelson allegedly lunged for the lens, shoved the guy and attacked back -- and now blames those actions on his film-honed, fast-twitch zombie-defense reflexes. Seriously. Per the statement Harrelson made through his publicist late Friday, which was summarily blasted by CNN and others: "I wrapped a movie called Zombieland, in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie."

Either Woody Harrelson is engaging in some seriously hilarious, "Tropic Thunder"-style send-up of Method acting and/or Christian Bale's Terminator tirade, or he's totally misinformed as to the definition of "quite understandably." Any guesses?

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