TheLandmanactor has shared new details about working with the “Walk the Line” singer.
So I just stayed in my room all night long.
But he was very kind to me."
Johnny Cash; Billy Bob Thornton.Credit:KMazur/WireImage; Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
“Cash said to me, ‘Whats your idea, son?’
This was at a point where Johnny was in a little more ill health.
Cash was open to Thornton’s plan but also knew he needed to follow his own instincts.
Billy Bob Thornton at a ‘Landman’ screening.Jon Kopaloff/Getty
“He said, ‘Yeah, that sounds good to me,'” Thornton remembered.
“And then he said, ‘I might even have an idea or two myself.
After all, I wrote the f—ing thing.’
And I was like, ‘Yes, sir, sorry.'”
The legendary country singer also left Thornton with a memento.
“He wrote a story about that day on four pieces of notebook paper,” the actor said.
“It was partly truth, partly fiction.
TheFargostar detailed his relationship with Cash shortly after the singer’s death in 2003.
“He loved that movie.
Cash was an edgy guy; he loved anything kinda offbeat.”
“I mean, we’ll see.
It just depends on how the chips may fall.
You never know in this business.”
