Billy Bob Thornton

I was – the first thing I ever auditioned for in L.A.

was a student film.

It was like one of those USC student films.

And I go in there and the part was some guy that just got off the turnip truck from Alabama.

And I thought, well, I've probably got this.

And so and I was broke and everything and it wasn't going to pay anything, but I didn't care.

I was like, well, maybe I get my foot in the door because I didn't go to be an actor anyway.

I just thought, well, try this stuff.

And I go in there, and I think the casting person and the director are both East Coast people, like New York or somewhere.

And I did my little audition, and they said, can you do it more Southern?

And I'm like, are you shitting me?

It's like, you've got to be shitting me.

I said, well, what you have to understand is I actually did just get off the truck from back there.

And this is how you talk, you know.

And of course, my accent is not as thick as it was then.

But they just said I wasn't Southern enough.

And it was like, oh, I see what they're getting at.

Yeah.

So they wanted the foghorn leghorn.

Yeah.