Records by Billy Bob. Cave full of ghosts. Billy Bob Torton Kinka Friedman

Billy Bob Thornton grew up in Arkansas, and the south, he is convinced, differs from all other places. “Here... the air is harder, but you feel ghosts...” As a child, he loved all sorts of stories, and they did not need to invent them- the heroes were nearby and said them themselves: “They sat down on the veranda and listened to the grandfather with his grandfather or some kind of Any old man... ”So gradually this book was born-the fruit of the long night conversations of Billy Bob with a stranger Friedman and the company of characters who were about to listen to the“ cave full of ghosts ”. He suggested to me: “Hey, let's make a book with wild and funny stories about how you grew up, well, there you can smack everything you wish,” I replied: “Okay, so, in general, it will come down.”.. The book was not written, but recorded, and much was not edited there. It’s the way it happened... so forgive me, please. ”

In the long career of Billy Bob there were successes, failures, and strong friendship, and the loss of loved ones. A book about all this. About friends, colleagues and inspirers - in cinema and just in life: about Angelina Jolie, Dua Yokem, Tom Eppersone and Daniel Lanua. About the role of art in our rapidly changing world - Billy Bob is not at all indifferent! About his best films: “The Squeezed Blade” (“Sekach”), “Simple plan”, “Ball of the monster”, “Bad Santa”... and new film work - “Jane Mansfield car,” and this film “looks correctly, felt That's right, it has the right composition of the actors... And this is a very, very good movie ”...