Billy Bob Thornton on ‘bad guy’ roles in ‘Spider-Man’, ‘Mission: Impossible III’
Billy Bob Thornton doesn’t need to be remembered as a “bad guy”.
The actor and filmmaker shared why he handed on main villain roles in Spider-Man (2002) and Mission: Inconceivable III (2006), explaining that he prefers to tackle much less typical characters.
“I don’t have much interest in those kinds of roles,” Thornton stated throughout an look on the Bingeworthy podcast.
“With the Green Goblin, I didn’t feel like getting up at 4 a.m. 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.”
Thornton identified how enjoying such roles in high-profile movies can have an enduring impression on an actor’s profession.
“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.”
Willem Dafoe in the end took on the position of Norman Osborn, also referred to as the Inexperienced Goblin, in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, whereas Philip Seymour Hoffman portrayed arms seller Owen Davian in Mission: Inconceivable III.
Whereas Thornton prevented these villainous roles, he later earned reward for his portrayal of hitman Lorne Malvo within the first season of FX’s Fargo, a efficiency that received him a Golden Globe.
Most just lately, Thornton earned his seventh Golden Globe nomination for his work as an oil rig disaster government in Taylor Sheridan’s collection Landman.