The third season of Billy Bob Thornton’s series, Goliath, is now streaming on Amazon’s PrimeVideo. The big news surrounding season three is that Billy Bob’s good buddy Dennis Quaid has joined the cast. I haven’t watched the show but I’m sure it’s good. Billy Bob, as eccentric as he is, tends to make good career choices. One of his best choices was to write his short film, Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade, which he would later adapt to become the feature film Sling Blade. That earned Billy Bob an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a nomination for Best Actor. Apparently, he had a head’s up about his future Oscar, though. His mother, who he says was psychic, told him he’s win an Oscar before he’d even become an actor. Here is what she predicted (the clip is below)
You said before that your mom was a psychic. Did she ever predict your career of life or anything?
She said a lot of stuff to me that was interesting over the years. Back in the old days, she said – and this was back when I was only playing music, she told me one time that one of these days I was going to get close to Burt Reynolds. That I’ll be really close to Burt Reynolds and that he was going to help me out somehow in my career. An she told me I would win an Academy Award before I ever became an actor, which was wild.
Here’s where I stand on psychic abilities: I believe (or want to believe) they are possible. I even believe I have met people who have channeled them. However, I also believe there are a lot of charlatans who claim to have them to take advantage of others. So I am more than willing to accept that Billy Bob’s mom was psychic. Also, having a psychic mom fits perfectly in his backstory. I do wonder how predictions such as these force fate, though. Like, did Billy Bob read for the Evening Shade role because of his mom’s prediction about Burt Reynolds, like a self-fulling prophecy? But it’s the Oscar prediction that fascinates me. Even if we go far out on a limb and theorize Billy Bob went into acting because his mom said he’d win an Oscar, he won one for writing. He probably never saw that coming (I’ll bet she did, though).
I don’t know when Billy Bob first mentioned his mom was psychic, but this is the first time I’ve heard of it. It brought back something that’s always been stuck in my head about Billy Bob: in the DVD commentary on Love Actually, Hugh Grant mentioned Billy Bob’s many phobias. Among them are antique furniture and (former Prime Minister) Benjamin Disraeli’s hair, specifically his facial hair. Hugh teased Billy Bob by making sure Disraeli’s portrait was in Billy Bob’s sightline on the staircase and pointing out pieces of furniture that were 500+ years old during takes. I understand that some of his phobias stem from his OCD, but now I’m wondering, what if it’s something bigger? What if Billy Bob is also psychic or can read psychic energy and has tapped into secrets select heirlooms hold? That would certainly explain his aversion to antiques. But now I really want to know what went on in Disraeli’s hair.
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I’m really enjoying Goliath. BBT seems pretty cool.
antiques can 100% be haunted. i lived in an apartment above a house owned by an antique dealer. the first floor was entirely staged as his store. it was magnificent but at night – it was playtime. i had to move after a few months. i couldn’t take it.
I’m curious. What did you hear at night?
people walking up and down a set of servant stairs that were blocked off b/c they were completely caved in and unusable. desks opening and closing, chairs moving in and out from a table. doors to and from the kitchen opening and closing – which i observed.
Was your apartment haunted or did you hear things below your apartment?
only once in my actual apartment. door slamming. it is what made me move. everything else was below the apartment.
I believe things have energy attached to them. I’m a bit psychic and have had dreams tell me things, I think this is quite common.
That’s a funny phobia – I have to watch that movie again!
omg Lizzie I would run as hell after the first night hearing anything like this. How did you manage to live with that is beyond me
He just so good in most everything he’s worked on.
Like Nic Cage, I’ll watch anything BBT plays in!
dude needs a better wig.
and Dennis Quaid has ruined his face with plastic surgery. he looks SO weird in those car insurance commercials.
oh Lizzie please tell more!!!
I don’t believe that psychics exist. I think that some people are exceptional hot and cold readers. Like a mentalist. They basically can read subtle body movements from others, breathing, eyes, etc.
Nope they exist.
Watch out for red cars.
Lol ok but they really do exist. Just a lot of fakes too.
I think the vast majority of those who claim to be psychic (especially those who have TV shows and make a lot of money from it) are not legit and just good at reading people and being vague but leading in their statements.
But years ago, I did meet someone who was SPOT ON and very specific. I mean VERY specific, on really obscure stuff that no one would know. Years later some random thing will happen, and I’ll suddenly remember that she mentioned it, like a decade ago.
@MARGOT SMITH
Then how do you explain people having dreams that later manifest and what about being able to predict something from touching or holding items?
How do you explain my very first real dream at 8 (and extremely boring) that included a conversation that I later in the day had and could lip sync what the other person was saying cause I remembered the dream? And also knew what they had written on the note in their left pocket cause I saw it in my dream the night before (in my dream I saw the person showing me the note excactly like he did when I told him I knew about it)?
Or what about when my grand mother, who was healthy and well, came to visit me in my dream to let me know she had passed, and when I woke up I told my mother and then the phone rang and it was my grand dad who then said she passed in her sleep that night?
Or that I knew the man who lived in the apartment before us had commited suicide there because HE told me and would hang out with me when my mum was at work in the evenings and I was all alone at home?
(We found out the truth about him after I told my mum about it and she did some digging).
Just because you can’t explain it doesn’t mean it’s not real. Tons and tons of things in the world that we now know to be real because of science or whatever used to be a mystery to people before.
As an example of the top of my head:
I read somewhere that there are 1000 new diagnosis every day in our world cause we keep learning about different diseases, viruses, bacteria and the human body. 1000! Every DAY. Are you telling me that the diseases didn’t exist before just because no one knew how to explain or knew the reasons for them..?
Billy Bob’s psychic mother provided the inspiration for his script of The Gift, a terrific movie-Cate B., Keanu, Hillary S., J.K. Simmons, Gary Cole, etc.
And Hugh Grant’s teasing, hehehe.
Yes, I remembered that too! It was a good movie, I’ll have to look to see if it’s streaming anywhere.
BBT has always given me the creeps, but he is talented.
I’ve been tracking BBT for DECADES…and he has quite often talked about his Mama and her gifts which I believe in…due to my own life…and upbringing…oh…and I agree with his phobia about antique furniture too!!!!
The man has NEVA NOT been compelling…in front of the camera…or behind it…even in the days when he was a bit player (see “Tombstone”)
He’s magnetic on screen. His role in Fargo? Your eyes just always went to him, he was hypnotic.
Totally one of those guys that I don’t get the attraction until I see them in action.
He’s pretty weird but I’ve always been a fan and he’s been around since Evening Shade and Matlock. Younger folks have probably never heard of those shows.
The first season of Fargo – the t.v. series, well, he’s great.
You’ll hate him but he’s great.
I hated Monster’s Ball but otherwise, he’s a great actor and I’ll admit that Bad Santa cracks me up every time.
I hope nothing pervy comes out about him.
Matt and Kevin already disappointed me.
My psychic abilities shows itself in dreams. I had an early partial (just the womb) hysterectomy at 35 and prior to that was extremely fertile. After 3 kids I was so happy not to worry about pregnancy anymore. Then I started dreaming of other people’s babies. I could literally see them pregnant in my dreams and often there was scenery so I could give them a time frame. Most of the women were having fertility issues. I was never wrong about these dreams. Sometimes I saw the babies after being born so I knew the sex. I call these babies my fairy godchildren. While these women were so happy and grateful that I could “see” their babies, I just wanted to “see” some GD lotteries numbers lol
I can attest that it’s true. His mom is a psychic. I have a friend who was married to his cousin, and BB’s aunt (my friends husband’s mom lol) was one too. My friend also had physic abilities in her family, so their children are gifted. They all see spirits, they come in to their life like normal humans, not transparent. It’s fascinating to hear stories. I’m remember the kids growing up when they would answer a phone (a real one!) they could tell you who was calling even when the other person didn’t announce themselves. It’s so interesting to me and I’d love to see some of what they call can see but I’m not gifted at all unfortunately. But yes, the family will do spot on readings. I love it!!