Billy Bob Thornton

I think it was an HBO movie or something.

It starred Val Kilmer.

and i was playing a railroad conductor in the 1920s it was uh uh based on an old movie with paul muni uh called uh i'm a fugitive from a chain gang uh old movie from i guess the 30s and uh they remade it and called it the man who broke a thousand chains i played a railroad conductor who had like a wool

fucking thing on for the 20s and they had the you know the old 20s haircut with the side sides pretty much shaved off you know that kind of stuff and uh we're shooting in riverside california at this old railroad museum and uh an old director named uh daniel mann who directed tea house the august moon with brando and some other movies uh he'd come out of retirement to do this he was an old cat

As a matter of fact, he was so old school that when I went to read for him, there was a casting director named Kathy Henderson who was always good to me.

So she would always get me in to see the director.

And he was sitting there behind the desk.

He had a little gray goatee and glasses.

And I just talked to him for a few minutes.

And then I read a couple of lines with him.

It was just me and him.

And he literally said, kid, I got a pot for you in this picture.

And it was like, what am I?

What is that, Louie Mayer?

Who the fuck was I just talking to, you know?

And so they put me in the thing.

And this was in the 80s.

And I'm burning up, you know, Riverside, California.

It's hotter than shit out there.

It was in the summer.