00:00You've said that you're not very good at pretending, but I feel like your performance in Sling Blade
00:05It's like a masterclass in transformation. What part of you was incarnate?
00:10A lot of it was that I knew people liked that picture.
00:15The character was based on three different people that kind of put together over the years.
00:20One of them was just the body language and one of them was voice and the other was the seed of the story.
00:25But I grew up around people like that. A lot of towns will have someone along those lines.
00:30But I think part of me that was in that character was his sort of sense of justice.
00:35It's like at the end of the day, his feeling was, who do you want to be this kid?
00:40His father figured he wanted to be the John Ritter character who may not go along.
00:45With everything that Carl was taught in this weird way by his family in the Bible or...
00:50The guy who would on the surface be the one that maybe his parents would have approved of.
00:55But he's a monster to this kid.
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