{"id":13839,"date":"2011-12-24T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T14:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2011-12-24T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T14:22:25","slug":"billy-bob-thornton-on-bad-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/24\/billy-bob-thornton-on-bad-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bob Thornton on Bad Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Billy-Bob-Thornton-in-Bad-Santa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13840\" title=\"Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Billy-Bob-Thornton-in-Bad-Santa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2004 I spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billy_Bob_Thornton\">Billy Bob Thornton<\/a> about his role in Terry Zwigoff&#8217;s comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.to\/ueE24H\">Bad Santa<\/a> (2003).<\/p>\n<p>The film was produced by the Coen brothers and Thornton played the title character with Tony Cox playing his partner in crime.<\/p>\n<p>It was a year after the US release and the film has since gone on to become something of a cult favourite as an alternative to traditional Christmas movies like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It's_a_Wonderful_Life\">It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miracle_on_34th_Street\">Miracle on 34th Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, this interview never aired on radio back in 2004 but you can now listen to it here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Billy_Bob_Bob_Thornton_on_Bad_Santa.mp3]\n<p>You can also download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/h3HeER\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Billy_Bob_Bob_Thornton_on_Bad_Santa.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Buy Bad Santa on <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/s745Xf\">DVD<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/vHete7\">Blu-ray<\/a> from Amazon UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with the actor about the cult Christmas film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[2381,907],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}