Here it is, in all its glory - Billy Bob Thornton on Q with Jian Gomeshi.
I heard that this morning at work. It was PAINFUL! What an ass BBT is!
Yeah, I really hadn’t heard of this fellow before; I kinda had an association between his name and Sling Blade, which I’ve never seen. But now I know exactly who and what he is.
I can’t decide whether he’s on something he shouldn’t be on, or not on something he should be on, or both at the same time…
Seems to me he’s just a passive-aggressive egomaniac. My read of his strange responses is that he felt Gomeshi was mentioning his acting career, which is irrelevant to his musical career, so his responses were defiantly irrelevant - in retribution.
So fine - we have no context of him being an actor, instead we have context of him being an asswipe.
As I said in the pit thread, I’m embarrassed for Unknown Hinson that he’s in a band with a douche like Billy Bob.
Whenever celebrities act like total pricks in interviews I can’t help wondering how much of the story we don’t know. We only see the interview, but we don’t see what happened in the lead up. The scenario I always think of is where the celebrity asked their agent to specifically make sure that certain questions wouldn’t be asked, or facts broughtup, in the interview, and then the interviewer goes ahead and does it anyway. In such a case, I’d probably be a dick and deliberately misunderstand their questions too.
Not saying it was the case here, but who knows?
I think this is one of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen in my life. Especially the shit about the monster magazine, and “my first love was a chick named Lisa Cohen.” Utterly baffling. (And refusing to answer the simple question of how long the band had been together.) I was almost convinced for a while that Billy Bob was in character or something, but he clearly wasn’t. SO weird.
- asshole
b. asshole plan B
III. some drug
Criminy, how did this tool ever get to jump Angelina Jolie’s bones?
He was in a movie with her?
I had to turn it off after a few minutes so I probably missed the really good parts. His band mates didn’t look too thrilled with the way he was acting. I feel bad for them having to sit through that. If I were the interviewer I probably would have just forgotten that he was there after the first couple of non answers.
This is not unusual. There have been a number of actors who have bands on the side. For some reason they all seem to thing that everyone should ignore the fact that they are famous for something else and just pretend its some fresh new band. How about just realizing that the only reason anyone is listening to your crappy band is because you are an actor and deal with it like an adult. These same actors can act prefectly charming on a talk show when talking about their next movie but they feel the need to affect some difficult artist persona when with the band.
Passive-aggressive is right. Unfortunately, I have to fault the interviewer for indulging it and continuing to ram his questions against a brick wall, instead of engaging the three more articulate people in the studio. It’d be fun if they were actually sparring, but it was more like picking at a scab.
I just watched it now, and I was thinking exactly the same thing. He resented being singled out by name to answer questions that any one of the band members could have answered. Yeah, it sucks to be rich and famous. :rolleyes:
But I can’t fault the dj for exploiting BBT’s rudeness - celebrity silliness has great promotional value.
Yeah, there’s a pit thread too.
I wish the interview asked the other band members, “so what’s it like to have an absoute asshole in your band?”
Man, what a jerk…
On the plus side, it’s great seeing Jian Gomeshi keeping busy. I’m a big Moxy Fruvous fan and was wondering what he’d been up to since the band went on hiatus.
So here’s where I confess that I don’t really care for Jian Gomeshi as an interviewer. I just find he’s too enthusiastic and positive about bands and artists that I am underwhelmed by. He is known around our house as John Gushy.
That being said, my hat’s off to him - he dealt with an undertalented egoist who was behaving like a complete asshole, and Jian G. came off looking gracious and intelligent. I’ve since looked this BlowJob Thornton guy up, and there are 10 year olds on youtube who are better drummers than he is.