Billy Bob Thornton

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.

You know, now over here, what we have is I never heard anybody.

I grew up down there.

I never heard that.

And so that's what they would do.

There are a lot of performances over the years where people who are not from the South played the part that actually use that accent and they win Academy Awards and stuff.

And I'm like, wow.

So anyway, I didn't get this part.

And the guy who got the part literally sounded like he was in the Bronx.

But he was doing that thing.

I thought, wow, this is going to be tough out here.

But Southerners don't often get picked or even noticed for things like let's say you're doing a gangster movie in the 30s in New York.

You know, even if you can do the accents, you know, whatever.