Billy Bob Thornton Rejected ‘Mission: Impossible’ Villain Because ‘I Didn’t Want to Be the Guy Trying to Kill Tom Cruise’; Said No to Green Goblin in ‘Spider-Man’
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/billy-bob-thornton-rejected-green-goblin-mission-impossible-roles-1236255110/
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> “I don’t have much interest in those kinds of roles. With the Green Goblin, I didn’t feel like getting up at 4am for five or six hours of makeup. And with ‘Mission: Impossible III,’ I didn’t want to be the guy trying to kill Tom Cruise. If you’re the bad guy in a big movie like that, audiences remember it forever. I prefer to keep things looser and less predictable.”
Six hours of makeup for the Green Goblin?
“It’s not because I’m a massive dickhead that I don’t do big roles, it’s because I’m too cool”
– Billy Bob probably
He’s so funny 😆. And a talented actor and musician.
Says the actor who opted for Malvo in Fargo??
Why does Billy Bob Thornton look like the lead singer for an indie band that does sea shanties?
He clearly knows how much shit Malcolm McDowell got for killing Captain Kirk.
On one hand, someone casting Billy Bob Thornton as Norman Osborne is absolutely unhinged.
On the other, its really easy for me to imagine him shouting “Parker!” with thick and convincing disdain.
Billy Bob is a weird guy, but you can’t deny he’s an artist
Guy fucking sucks anyway. Always has.
I always think of him as sling blade.
I love this guy..
He looks like he glued his pube trimmings to his face
He gets it’s acting, right?
I think it would have been fun to see him opposite Cruise. Both actors tend to really dig into their roles.
I just can’t get over the interview he had with his band, and was being a total dick because the interviewer mentioned he was an actor.
But he didn’t say no to looking like a dumbass and wearing two hats at the same time
Make a 6 episode MI series with BBT set in post-war Germany.
Woujd they ask Tom Perry about being a villain in a Mission Impossible film?
Awww, he could have had a Sling Blade as his weapon. Hmmm Hmmmmm..
I know him as angie jolies ex
Guess Billy doesn’t like money
He’d rather play a piece of shit drunk Santa a couple times
That’s ok. He was the best villain in Fargo S1
I feel like if you can play the guy trying to kill The Rock why can’t you play the guy trying to kill Tom Cruise? 🤷🏿♂️ But hey screw it, keep doing you.
Holy shit.. both of those would have been fucking terrible.
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