Billy Bob Thornton

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.

But people from New York can get parts playing Southerners.

That still goes on.

Absolutely, yeah.

It's ridiculous.

I've known those guys a long time, those guys in Skinner.

Yeah, it's, you're right.

That whole, and also anybody that was from the South got lumped into the Southern rock.

thing right you know and they weren't all just people that sounded like charlie daniels i mean there were very very different types of bands the allman brothers combined jazz and blues and rock and pop and everything and their music they were literally masters the allman brothers allman brothers live at the fillmore east probably the best live album ever made but they just say they're all southern rock bands it's like it wasn't really like that you know um