Here are some photos from Tuesday night’s New York premiere of Bad Santa 2. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the sequel to his cult-classic 2003 film, this time while wearing a questionable toupee (if we’re just going by these photos). BBT has been out promoting this movie for a few weeks, and of course he’s been getting questions about his ex-wife Angelina Jolie. I expect gossip journalists to ask him about Angelina, even after all these years. What bugs me is that BBT always answers the questions. Apparently, BBT is next month’s Playboy Interview, and he asked who he would love to work with. His answer? Brad Pitt.

Their collaboration probably wouldn’t be at the top of Angelina Jolie‘s viewing list, but Billy Bob Thornton thinks he and Brad Pitt would make a pretty great team onscreen.

“This might surprise people, but I’d love to do a movie with Brad Pitt. I think we’d be great together. We’d play a couple of Southern guys,” the Fargo star recently told Playboy.

Billy spoke highly of the mother-of-six as he added: “She’s a great person. And she’s one of the people who didn’t abandon me. She never has.”

Despite splitting up with Jolie over a decade ago, the actor recently told Entertainment Tonight that he and Jolie keep in touch from time to time. “She seems, you know, okay to me when I talk to [her]. I don’t talk to her that often though,” Thornton said at a recent press junket for his new movie Bad Santa 2. “We’re still very good friends, but she’s got her world. I’ve got mine.”

“Once in a blue moon we come together,” Thornton said of his current friendship with 41-year-old Jolie. “Every now and then we talk, you know? Whatever. But when people are going through their trials and tribulations I try to leave them alone unless they want to talk to me.”

[From People & Express]

Now that I’m thinking about it, it is a little bit weird that BBT and Brad have never worked together, not even with Brad as a producer. They’ve both worked in the industry for so long, they’ve worked with the same directors and actors and obviously, they were both married to the same woman. Hm…

As for BBT saying “she’s one of the people who didn’t abandon me. She never has.” Well, she did sort of abandon him, but they repaired their friendship post-divorce.

Photos courtesy of WENN.