{"id":2264737,"date":"2026-02-03T14:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2264737"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:36:48","slug":"why-landman-star-billy-bob-thornton-fought-for-years-against-taking-tv-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-landman-star-billy-bob-thornton-fought-for-years-against-taking-tv-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Landman Star Billy Bob Thornton Fought For Years Against Taking TV Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Billy Bob Thornton<\/a> has become familiar to television audiences for the\u00a0hit Paramount<\/a>+ series “Landman<\/a>“, the veteran actor is the first to admit he initially avoided taking small screen roles for years.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, Thornton stated that he was “late to the party” entering the realm of television. “ecause when I was growing up TV was a bad word to movie actors. So I resisted forever,” he recalled. Thornton was so resistant, in fact, that he turned down roles throughout the 2000s for shows that would go on to great success, although he didn’t let<\/strong>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Billy Bob Thornton has become familiar to television audiences for the\u00a0hit Paramount+ series “Landman“, the veteran actor is the first to admit he initially avoided taking small screen roles for years. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Thornton stated that he was “late to the party” entering the realm of television. “ecause when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2264737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Why-Landman-Star-Billy-Bob-Thornton-Fought-For-Years-Against.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264739,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264737\/revisions\/2264739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}