{"id":568,"date":"2014-01-13T01:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=568"},"modified":"2014-06-20T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:01:36","slug":"billy-bob-thornton-says-tv-has-eclipsed-movies-as-the-place-for-sophisticated-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/13\/billy-bob-thornton-says-tv-has-eclipsed-movies-as-the-place-for-sophisticated-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bob Thornton says TV has eclipsed movies as the place for sophisticated projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/124254nwyw727kthnhyypg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-569\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of Billy Bob Thornton\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/124254nwyw727kthnhyypg.jpg\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/124254nwyw727kthnhyypg.jpg 851w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/124254nwyw727kthnhyypg-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/124254nwyw727kthnhyypg-600x222.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of Billy Bob Thornton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PASADENA, Calif.\u2014Billy Bob Thornton said actors who want to work on sophisticated projects are finding them in television and not film.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s proving the point with a starring role in the upcoming FX series \u201cFargo,\u201d inspired by the 1996 Joel and Ethan Coen movie.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton told a Television Critics Association meeting Tuesday that while Hollywood studios churn out action movies, broad comedies and \u201cmovies where apparently vampires are all models,\u201d TV offers the kind of insightful work once common in films.<\/p>\n<p>He says that\u2019s why peers like Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid and Kevin Bacon have turned to television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entertainment business can pretend all they want, but the movie world has changed drastically, particularly in the last five or six years,\u201d said Thornton, who won a best-screenplay Oscar for \u201cSling Blade\u201d and was nominated for his role in the 1996 film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to be an actor, get on a really good series in television because there\u2019s where it\u2019s at,\u201d said Thornton, whose neatly groomed hair contrasted with striped pants decorated with buttons, embellished cowboy boots and a sleeveless black T-shirt that showed numerous arm tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFargo\u201d also stars Martin Freeman of \u201cSherlock\u201d and the \u201cHobbit\u201d films. It debuts in April on FX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASADENA, Calif.\u2014Billy Bob Thornton said actors who want to work on sophisticated projects are finding them in television and not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hollywood","mauthors-lynn-elber","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}