Comments on: Billy Bob Thornton chickens out

By: RealCanadianBeaver

RealCanadianBeaver — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:31:17 +0000

Mr. Billy Bob was just trying to educate us ignorant Canadians on how cool Americans are. He was doing us a big favor. We ought to embrace his ilk and try to absorb all the US culture we can as we don’t see a whole lot of them.

By: Monkey D. Luffy

Monkey D. Luffy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0000

He was a douche right from the start, if he didn’t like that the interviewer mentioned what everyone already knows, then he should have said so and walked out, not sat there going “I don’t know” to questions like “How long have you guys been playing together?” He looked like a Zombie, I think he was on something, not just pissed at the interviewer.

By: Canadian

Canadian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:19:29 +0000

The band should have left the interview rather than let Billy Bob tank the band’s career. Billy Bob likely has money from his ACTING career to fall back on in hard times, perhaps he should have thought of his band mates first before acting like a tit.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:08:59 +0000

DA – Once the interviewer broke the agreed upon rules (Lee, whatever you may think about the agreement, it was an agreement and the interviewer broke it), Thornton just refused to give any real answers on anything. You break the rules, you don’t get the interview.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:18:49 +0000

“He had an agreement with the interviewer ahead of time that he (the interviewer) would not ask him about his acting (because he was there about his music)…”

How does that explain his curious reactions to such questions as “How long have you guys been playing together?” and “Did you learn anything from Willie Nelson?” (?) I would think both questions have everything to do with music, and zero to do with acting.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:10:17 +0000

BBT is a d-bag. Ghomeshi didn’t ask him about his acting, he mentioned it in the lead-in. What, we’re supposed to pretend we’ve never heard of BBT as an actor? It would have been completely strange if it hadn’t been at least mentioned in the beginning. BBT gave the interviewer plenty I’d say. His bandmates looked mortified at his antics.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:52:35 +0000

He had an agreement with the interviewer ahead of time that he (the interviewer) would not ask him about his acting (because he was there about his music), and the interviewer promptly broke that promise, so Thornton responded by pretty much giving the interviewer nothing.

By: Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:31:49 +0000

Yeah, Billy’s a strange piece of work, anyway.
But, in this case, it seriously looks like he was on something.
He seemed to be exhibiting signs of paranoia.

(Or maybe he was just “hearing voices”, as usual.)

By: RadialSkid

RadialSkid — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:16:39 +0000

I have the Boxmasters album. An interesting sort of Buck Owens type country with a vintage look and sound and some very modern humor (the hook to one of their songs is “I’ll give you a ring when you give me back my balls”), but in the end it’s just a novelty act. I can’t imagine anyone actually paying money to see them live.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:15:57 +0000

Jian Ghomeshi is a twit. So is Billy Bob Thornton.