Post your questions for Billy Bob Thornton | Movies

What’s Billy Bob Thornton’s most iconic function? Some could say the taciturn barber within the Coen brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There, others would possibly contend it’s the educational disabled killer in his early movie Sling Blade. However everyone knows the reality: it’s the sex-addicted alcoholic Father Christmas in Unhealthy Santa who’s obsessive about the “three Bs” (look it up, it is a household publication).

Be that as it could, Thornton has had a stellar Hollywood profession since rising within the mid-90s. Sling Blade, the unbiased 1996 movie he wrote, directed and starred, gained him a finest tailored screenplay Oscar – although his directing profession went into hibernation after a troublesome time adapting Cormac McCarthy’s All of the Fairly Horses a couple of years later. Nonetheless, he turned a stalwart of mainstream and unbiased performing in that interval, with roles in Armageddon, A Easy Plan and Monster’s Ball.

Thornton leaned into his raddled display screen persona with Unhealthy Santa, turned up as a lecherous US president in Love Really, reunited with the Coens for the screwball comedy Insupportable Cruelty, and performed sports activities group coaches in Friday Night time Lights and The Unhealthy Information Bears remake. The rise of high-end TV gave him extra strings to his bow: he performed a hitman within the collection adaptation of Fargo, and a washed-up lawyer in Goliath. And it took him over a decade, however he lastly obtained again into directing in 2012, with the southern drama Jayne Mansfield’s Automotive. He additionally has a side-hustle as a singer-songwriter, with 4 albums to his title – which leads us to his new movie, The Trailer Park Boys Presents: Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties – The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story, which options Thornton and his band the Boxmasters.

So what do you wish to ask him as he drops by the Guardian for a reader interview? What does it take to be in a Coen brothers movie? What’s it like being a movie star musician (and does he examine notes with Johnny Depp)? Any extra directing initiatives on the horizon? Submit your questions within the feedback beneath, earlier than Monday 18 November at 12 midday.