Billy Bob Thornton

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Billy Bob Thornton is in a class by himself. If you haven’t seen his Amazon series Goliath, you’re missing a great acting showcase…a perfect follow-up to his unforgettable turn on the first season of Fargo. Leonard and Jessie are longtime fans and delight in talking to him about finding his place in Hollywood, working with the Coen Brothers, playing the President of the United States in Love, Actually, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Now Entering Nerdist.com
0:04.8	Hi, I'm Leonardant.
0:13.7	And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:15.0	And you're listening to Malton on movies.
0:17.0	And Billy Bob Thornton, where you grew up, did everybody have a middle name?
0:24.5	Yes.
0:25.6	I think everybody has a middle name everywhere.
0:30.0	It's just that in the South, in the South, they don't have the entire, you know, sort of proper name that it comes from.
0:39.1	Like, for instance, William Robert, Billy Bob, you know.
0:43.7	So in the South, they just forego the William Robert.
0:47.2	Are you, in fact, William Robert?
0:48.9	No.
0:49.5	Okay.
0:49.9	No.
0:50.1	My name is actually on my birth certificate.
0:52.3	It would be a good pen name, though.
0:54.2	Oh, yeah, absolutely. William Robert. Absolutely. Sounds birth certificate. It would be a good pen name, though. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
0:54.8	William Robert.
0:55.8	Absolutely.
0:56.2	Sounds very fancy.
0:57.2	It does sound fancy.
0:58.4	Way too fancy for me.
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