Billy Bob Thornton

made the face, and I started talking in that voice because I was so in a moment of self-loathing that I literally started going at myself in the mirror.

I did that monologue to the girl that's the college student who comes to interview me in the beginning of the movie.

It's like a nine-minute monologue.

I did that monologue in the mirror to myself right there.

And never wrote it down.

And I can remember it to this day.

Uh, cause I have all these weird afflictions, you know, I have a terrible anxiety and, uh, have obsessive compulsive disorder really bad.

And I was grew up dyslexic and, uh,

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.