Woody Harrelson: you should embrace your shadow, almost love your shadow. Maybe that is imperative to your overall growth: to accept yourself as you are, with all your faults.

 Are there ways in which acting helps you understand or improve yourself? Yeah. Even when you’re studying to do some barbaric type of character, like in “Natural Born Killers” — not a comfortable place to be in, but all of us have this dark side. You have your shadow, these things that in some way define an aspect of your character that is not your prettiest self. I think there’s a great deal of benefit to exploring that. Jung and some of these other guys think you should embrace your shadow, almost love your shadow. Maybe that is imperative to your overall growth: to accept yourself as you are, with all your faults.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/27/magazine/woody-harrelson-interview.html