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...next year's Mr. Woodcock, "the P.E. teacher we all had growing up, but a little darker," the Bad Santa star says. His portrayal of the sometimes sadistic Woodcock, Thornton says, was influenced by his dad Billy Ray, "a very good high school basketball coach but also a hard-ass." The Arkansas-born actor believes the kind of discipline dispensed by men like Woodcock and his father is, regrettably, on the wane. "If you tell a student what to do these days, they just pull a knife on you." And the best way to prevent that, obviously, is by stepping...
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...says of the ordeal. “It was scary at the time, but experiences like those really made me want to do it more in the end. It really inspired me and showed me the level of dedication this sort of work takes. You can never half-ass...
...filmmaking is just like construction work, just like building a house,” Johnson says. “It’s a business with materials, deadlines, budgets, and so it’s not just the director catching inspiration. It’s the director busting his ass to get it in on time...
Moments such as these, of innocence and resignation, suggest a gentler side to Van Peeble’s strident political persona. In that respect, the HFA event fulfilled its purpose perfectly: it offered uncommon insight into mind and heart of a cinematic fixture. And that is truly bad ass...