Billy Bob Thornton has an unlikely latest role – that of a manure salesman.
“I’m a very tricky manure salesman,” he told 'Entertainment Tonight'.
“”There are a lot of words to use here, there are a lot of jokes to be had, but we won’t go there. When you think about it, when you’re selling anything, like if you’re on the news, or you’re like an actor going down the red carpet, you’re always kinda selling manure in a way, you know what I mean?“
The comedy, which also stars Kyle MacLachlan and Tea Leoni, looks at the manure industry in the 1960s. Billy Bob plays a salesman who has to save his manure company when the owner dies in a tragic accident.
“The salesman world is pretty interesting,” he says. “Whether it’s like bible salesmen or vacuum cleaner salesmen, whatever it is, it’s a really interesting life.”