Tracy Letts

He might have been.

uh i think it's a great movie i think it's a great performance we talk sometimes that sometimes he takes a big swing and this is a big swing in terms of the the accent uh work that he's doing clearly it's a billy bob thornton likes to tell the story of the character of sling blade came to him while he was shaving in the mirror uh well uh he was shaving in the mirror after watching the movie tomorrow because it's very clear that

His character in Sling Blade takes something from Jackson Fentry, the character that Duvall plays here.

You know, this was Duvall's favorite of all his movies.

This was his favorite.

I think it's superb, and I think more people should know it.

Actually, and in my...

I don't know why our timelines are a little different.

What I had was Godfather 72 followed by Tomorrow 72.

And if his first act after the hit of the Godfather, and by the way, they knew the, you know,

They knew they had something with the Godfather while they were making it.

He talked about that as well.

For him to follow up the Godfather by going down south and playing this character in this black and white independent thing.

By the way, Peter Masterson, Horton Foote's first cousin, is in the movie.

He plays the lawyer in the framing device of the court case.

He's the attorney.

It was pretty obscure.

I had seen it before.

I think maybe Facets had a pretty hard-to-watch VHS, which is where I had seen it before.

Or maybe I'd just seen it on regular TV.