James Woods on Palisades Fire: None of Us Is a Celebrity, Rich or Poor, a Democrat or a Republican, We Were Just Helping Each Other

‘It was an extraordinary experience of realizing how essential good neighbors, good friends, good relatives’

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WOODS: "It’s — it’s astonishing that what happened during this experience was that we found out that none of us is a celebrity, none of us is a poor person or rich person, a Democrat or a Republican. We were just neighbors just really helping each other. That one video was my neighbor who, after we had evacuated, before he evacuated ran down to my house to try to stop that fire coming over my deck, because he saw it from his deck. Amazing, a fellow named Robert Trenteller. It was — as devastating as it was, it was an extraordinary experience of realizing how essential good neighbors, good friends, good relatives — I have had people call me. I did a movie with Walter Goggins, a wonderful actor, years ago. I talked to him once or twice. I just got a call, a long text from him, 'Here is my address. The keys are in the car. I’m out of town. Use our house. Here’s all the codes.' I mean, people offering us their homes and so on.” 

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