billy bob does a ton of coke, then an interview

[TylerDurden]

Do not call Billy Bob Thornton an actor when you are interviewing him about his music.

Billy Bob Thornton's interview on a Canadian radio show is garnering lots of attention.

A Canadian radio host learned that lesson when Thornton and his electric hillbilly band -- the Boxmasters -- visited his Toronto, Ontario, studio Wednesday morning.

When Jian Ghomeshi introduced the trio on his CBC show, he noted that its singer-songwriter-drummer was also an "Oscar-winning screenwriter-actor-director."

Thornton's publicist, Arnold Robinson, disputes suggestions that what followed was a breakdown by the actor -- hmmm, musician.

He "simply elected not to engage with the interviewer because of the direction of the interview from the outset," Robinson told CNN. Thornton took the reference to his movie career as an insult to his musical endeavor.

The radio interview, which also was recorded on video, may leave the audience wondering whether this was a controlled performance by Thornton or a public breakdown that revealed true anger over a perceived insult of his music.

this interview is fucking weird. he's either gone senile, done a mountain of columbia's finest, or he's just fucking lost it.

video and story (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/09/billy.bob.thornton.interview/index.html#cnnSTCVideo)

[Datači]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[vasili denisov]

Looks like this astronaut needs to be put out to farm.

[Archangel]

But he got Bruce Willis's mission patch!

[tony101]

I get what he was tryin to do, but he's just lost it. the poor fuck's delusional.

[Datači]

more like tony102

[tony101]

Eh, 1 thru 100 were taken

[eleveneighteen]

Billy Bob should do a duet with Joaquin Phoenix.

*sniff* It's all about the music, man.

[smahoo]

would've been great if the interviewer had just told him to GTFO....what a colossal asshole

[Pharon]

I love how he was offended when the interviewer asked about music being his first love and when it happened -- "Would you ask Tom Petty that question?"

What a fucking douche.

[wacker]

What kind of ego do you have to have to be offended when someone introduces you as an Oscar winner?

[UNC]

You're an oscar meyer weiner winner

[Archangel]

For all his douchiness, he fucked this, and none of us did.


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[The GWD]

I did.

[Archangel]

How was she?

[Mustard]

I would have asked a follow up question about Bad Santa, and then I would have slapped him across the face with a carp.

[Mr. Brown]

This is why we shouldn't interview actors, just let them act. We don't go around interviewing every single doctor

[Swurgen]

This guy has the patience of mother theresa not to come across the table at this asshole.

[Hoser]

Coke would have made this sore much more interesting. BBT is a douche, bottom line.

[Bizz]

lulz boxmasters

[FarEastFornicator]

The band looked fairly uncomfortable.

I subscribed to a magazine called Famous Monsters of Film land.

[Aegis]

We'll always have Bad Santa no matter how fucked up he is.

[Alcestis]

Billy Bob Thornton should have known better -- being impolite doesn't fly for Canadians.

The actor "musician" and his band, The Boxmasters, have canceled their last two Canadian tour dates with Willie Nelson following Billy Bob's now-infamous radio rant of d-bag awesomeness, according to an announcement on Willie's website.

But Billy Bob didn't just end his hissy fit in the studio. Apparently he went on stage later that night, in front of an all-Canadian audience, and called his interviewer an "asshole"... for, you know, asking Billy Bob questions.

The canceled shows might stem from the fact that Billy Bob said Canadian audiences were boring ... or because actors are usually terrible at playing music.

He's just lucky he was in Canada and not some scarier, less-Canadian country.

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[highone]

Canadian fans are running wild! First Britney and now Billy Bob!