Revisiting Billy Bob Thornton

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

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

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Billy Bob Thornton is in a class by himself. If you haven’t seen his Amazon series Goliath, just about to launch its fourth and final season, 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. This encore episode originally aired on June 30, 2017.

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0:30.1	Hi, it's Leonard Malton. I just finished watching season one of Landman on Paramount Plus,
0:36.5	starring the great Billy Bob Thornton.
0:39.2	It put me in mind of the conversation Jesse and I had with him in 2017.
0:43.8	I think you'll enjoy listening to it. Hi, I'm Leonard Malton.
1:02.4	And you're listening to Malton on movies.
1:05.2	And Billy Bob Thornton, where you grew up, did everybody have a middle name?
1:13.2	Yes.
1:14.2	I think everybody has a middle name everywhere.
1:18.6	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.
1:27.8	Like, for instance, William Robert, Billy Bob, you know.
1:32.4	So in the South, they just forego the William Robert.
1:35.9	Are you in fact William Robert?
1:37.6	No.
1:38.1	Okay.
1:38.5	No.
1:38.7	My name is actually on my birth certificate.
1:41.0	It would be a good pen name, though.
1:42.8	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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