Billy Bob Thornton doesn't want to talk politics and is not sure why other celebrities would .
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Billy Bob Thornton Slams Celebrities on Politics
Billy Bob Thornton doesn't want to talk politics and is not sure why other celebrities would want to push their political beliefs on others.The veteran 70-year-...
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The veteran 70-year-old actor - who recently - explained why he does not use his Hollywood platform to force his political or personal beliefs on others.
He recently appeared on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast as he said: 'I don't know anything about politics.
'I have no idea. And the stuff that I do believe, I don't want to force it down somebody else's throat because I'm not an expert on that.'
Thornton also criticized when celebrities earn awards and use the opportunity to be activists.
He said: 'I'm not really big on like at awards shows all of a sudden you start talking about saving the badgers and stuff.
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Billy Bob Thornton (pictured last month in LA) doesn't want to talk politics and is not sure why other celebrities would want to push their political beliefs on others
'Like Ricky Gervais said, you , it's like get your little award and f*** off, you know?'
Comedian and host of the podcast Mandel said that it is important to talk about one's feelings and experiences over their personal agenda.
He recently appeared on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast as he said: 'I don't know anything about politics. I have no idea. And the stuff that I do believe, I don't want to force it down somebody else's throat because I'm not an expert on that'
Comedian and host of the podcast Mandel said that it is important to talk about one's feelings and experiences over their personal agenda
'But these days I just look at it as like, "Oh, OK, we're gonna go over here and, you know, have some dry chicken breast and green beans, you know, and we'll listen to people get up there and pontificate about how awesome they are."'
Thornton had earned the 1997 Oscar in the Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published category for his work in Sling Blade.
The Landman actor went on to say that 'there's a time and place' for activism but celebrities should steer clear of it when it comes to award shows.
During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast in November he (pictured at Coachella last month) said he doesn't really 'care about awards anymore' as he says he's got 'plenty of them' and earned most of them 'under the wire, when awards were kind of real still'
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Thornton had earned the 1997 Oscar in the Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published category for his work in Sling Blade
Thornton said: 'Don't go up there and talk about saving the badgers in Wisconsin or something, you know what I'm saying?
'And people would argue and say, "Well, no, because I have a voice and because everybody knows me. This is a great platform for me to put this out there."'
'Well, how about this? If you have a billion dollars, and you want to save the badgers, f***ing save them. I mean, you got plenty of money to save the badgers, trust me. That is not, that's barely gonna cut into your budget.'
Landman season three is set to begin filming in August with a release .
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