Billy Bob Thornton says Hollywood told him he ‘wasn’t Southern enough’: 'I am just off the turnip truck'
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Billy Bob Thornton opens up about regional prejudice in Hollywood and his current role in Taylor Sheridan's "Landman" alongside co-star Sam Elliott for the show's second season.
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"It certainly makes you, at least for a period of time, stay in your wheelhouse," Thornton said. "A guy from the Bronx can play a guy from Mississippi in the movies, I've found over the years. But a guy from Mississippi can't really play a guy from the Bronx."
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