Billy Bob Thornton

You know, kind of an edge of the spectrum kind of guy.

And I always had the ability to remember stuff.

I have a photographic memory.

I'm dumb as a bag of hair in every other aspect of life.

But I have a photographic memory.

And even if it's not something I read on a page, it's up here.

And so I remembered that monologue.

And then I realized that I was talking about certain things that were actually in my life.

The idea of him living out back in this shed, just sleeping in a hole back there, and the family would bring him his food and stuff like he was a creature and stuff like that, that was based on a guy in Alpine, Arkansas that lived there.

The story was that his mother was scared by a snake when she was pregnant, you know, old southern lore shit.

Right, right.

And or the father was drunk when he was conceived, you know, but actually he had polio and was what the real deal was.

He walked funny.

He talked funny and everything.

So Carl is largely based on a combination of.

This guy, Ed, in our town, and Frankenstein, Frankenstein and the kid and the sort of not knowing any better.

And it's like, well, I was told by the parents in the Bible, it says, if you see some, like sex is bad or whatever it was, he sees his mother with his cat.

Jesse Dixon, and he kills her.

She told him to do that.

So that's where it all came from.