Billy Bob Thornton - Thornton's Dad Inspired Duvall Character

 

Billy Bob Thornton , Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) held at the Royal Opera House - Press Room London, England ....

Thornton's Dad Inspired Duvall Character

 

Billy Bob Thornton's new movie The Jayne Mansfield's car to be a difficult childhood, but a closer look of the movie fans - and his real-life father and her onscreen father, Robert Duvall, modeled.
World War II veteran of three dark comedy centers on the family and their struggles and their cold-hearted father or mother, to connect with Jim Caldwell.
Thornton also wrote and directed the project, as it were, and Duvall's character in The Bad Santa star admits he was on his emotionless father, William Raymond basis.
In Berlin on Monday, telling a (13Feb12) at the Film Festival cinema for the premiere at a press conference to reporters, he said, "My father was an Irishman and a very violent and physical abuse, both verbal and in our family. The navy, a Korean War He experienced a very intense man and I never had a conversation with. "
Thornton and scriptwriter of the film are scenes in which his grandson, Duvall car crash debris from the survey, it is also based on the true.
He adds, "He (my father), my brother and I. .. from car wrecks, he will be standing there, Lucky Strikes, and the (cigarette) smoke, and for two hours in a car wreck when I look at it and I was like, 'Why We are here for? ' That was how we connected.
"Beaten, and when I grew up with no contact or anything, all over, I realized that I understood my father and I loved my father."