Billy Bob Thornton's irreverence mixes with his Southern charm like a good ol' whiskey sour. After all, he can deliver lines with a sincerity that is almost mocking. He even, with a wink and a nod, played a not-so-saintly St. Nick. Some saw that as a brave choice. He doesn't. "A brave choice is to see someone being attacked in a park and go intervene; that's a brave choice," he said. "It's not a brave choice to do some weird thing in the middle of a scene, you know what I mean?"

For his current role, he's making choices, too, mostly just to be himself. "Well, I mean I pretty much am playing myself if I were a landman."

In the Paramount+ show "Landman," viewers get a peek behind the curtain of a world we really usually see. "I mean, the movie 'Giant,' one of my favorites, I mean, that t

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