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The Skip Bayless Show

Skip 1 on 1: Billy Bob Thornton

The Skip Bayless Show

West Coast Sports Broadcasting

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.5915 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On the debut episode of ‘Skip 1 on 1,’ Skip sits down with Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton. The two discuss Billy’s childhood and how his dyslexia helped shape the actor he is today. They also dive into some of Billy’s most iconic characters: Karl Childers from ‘Sling Blade,’ Willie from ‘Bad Santa,’ Lorne Malvo in ‘Fargo,’ and his newest role, Tommy Morris in ‘Landmand.’ Lastly, Billy Bob and Skip discuss Jerry Jones’ iconic scene in ‘Landman’ and Billy gives a preview of what to expect from Season 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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here we go this is skip one-on-one. I consider this man a friend, and I say that only to qualify the statement I'm about to make about him.

0:47.3

Billy Bob Thornton is a really good guy with a big, great heart.

0:53.1

He's a movie star and a rock star who doesn't act like one.

0:58.2

He's Hollywood A-list with little to know Hollywood in him. This man won an Academy Award. He was

1:07.4

nominated twice more. He's won two Golden Globes. I mean, who can forget Lauren Malvo and Fargo,

1:15.1

Billy McBride and Goliath, and who can forget Carl in Slingblade and playing opposite Hallie Berry and

1:22.3

Monsters Ball and Bad Santa. And I could go on and on because this man has been acting for 40 years,

1:29.3

and right now he's in the middle of playing what might be the role of his lifetime.

1:35.9

A role I believe he was born to play for the great Taylor Sheridan.

1:40.3

That's Tommy Norris and Landman, which, as we speak, has begun shooting season two down in Fort Worth, Texas.

1:48.5

So Billy Bob Thornton, I'm honored. You'd share the stage with me for a couple of minutes here.

1:55.6

How's it going on, Skip? It's good to see you, buddy.

1:58.1

Good. It's good to see you. All right, so you are a huge sports fan.

2:04.0

So let's start off by talking just a little bit of sports.

2:07.6

We both grew up big St. Louis Cardinals baseball fans back in the day.

2:12.5

You in Arkansas, of course, me in Oklahoma.

2:15.1

I thought I was a pretty good high school baseball player, but you were a

2:19.3

really good high school baseball player as in pitcher. So I don't think I've ever talked to you about

2:24.5

this. Can you describe what you were as a pitcher? Yeah, well, I started pitching pretty young, and I, we had a thing called the minor leagues when you're eight or nine.

2:42.0

So I started that like before Little League.

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