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" Billy Bob Thornton conducted a stilted radio interview filled with awkward silences after the DJ started the conversation by mentioning his career as an actor. Thornton was being interviewed on Q with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio alongside his bandmates in his Modbilly fusion group The Boxmasters. Ghomeshi started the interview by mentioning Thornton&amp;#039;s other career as an &amp;quot;Oscar-winning screenwriter, actor and director&amp;quot;, adding that his work in music was &amp;quot;anything but a diversion from the silver screen&amp;quot;. Thornton uttered phrases including &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know what you&amp;#039;re talking about&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know what you mean by that&amp;quot; before bringing up baseball and monster magazines out of context for the next ten minutes. Eventually, Thornton said: &amp;quot;What I&amp;#039;m explaining is that we said do not talk about s**t like that. And we also said that we didn&amp;#039;t want to hear anything about how this is my first love. &amp;quot;You wouldn&amp;#039;t say that to Tom Petty, would you? &amp;#039;I understand music is your first love.&amp;#039; Well, my first love was a chick named Lisa Cone. You know what I mean?&amp;quot; The pair then called a truce and agreed to talk about the music of The Boxmasters. Publicist Arnold Robinson told CNN: &amp;quot;[Thornton] simply elected not to engage with the interviewer because of the direction of the interview from the outset.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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