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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’

‘I accidentally got into acting – I’m still not sure how’ … Billy Bob Thornton.
‘I accidentally got into acting – I’m still not sure how’ … Billy Bob Thornton. Photograph: Broadimage/Shutterstock

Is your music less important, more important, or about as important as your film work? BenderRodriguez
Here’s the thing: I grew up in music. I saw the Beatles when I was eight. By the time I was nine, I had a band. Started with a little cheap guitar and then got a drum kit, which my father hated. I was playing pretty big concerts by the time I was 16 and then went on tour. I became a roadie from 18 to about 22. I went to LA to play music, accidentally got into acting. I’m still not sure how it happened. I always say that my success as an actor was out of ignorance, because I didn’t know how to be anything other than natural, and I think they liked that.

I loved both of them. It’s all one vision, all out of the same brain. I couldn’t choose one over the other. I’d like to do both, as long as they’ll let me.

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