Billy Bob Thornton felt 'simply true' making bad Santa 2

Billy Bob Thornton says it changed into "simply correct" reprising his position as Willie in 'awful Santa 2' because the first film had end up "iconic".

Billy Bob Thornton says it changed into "absolutely true" to reprise his position in 'terrible Santa 2'.

The sixty one-year-vintage actor stars as Willie - the titular horrific Santa - in the these days released sequel to the 2003 comedy film, and has stated he enjoyed getting back into the pink suit yet again as he believes the unique movie has now become "iconic".

speaking to overall film mag, Billy said: "the primary film has emerge as type of iconic, you already know. Like people watch 'it's A awesome existence' and 'Miracle on thirty fourth road' and 'terrible Santa' - it is like a field set.

"So it's sincerely correct to try this, and it's been 13 years and we simply kind of stepped into it (and) it fit like a glove."

'horrific Santa 2' sees Willie go back to coins in at the festive season over again, this time with a plan to steal hundreds of thousands of greenbacks from a Chicago-based charity.

The sequel also features Kathy Bates as Willie's mom Sunny, a component that changed into formerly written as a male earlier than determined to make changes to the script.

Director Mark Waters stated formerly: "there was an entire collection of improvement thoughts primarily based around [Willie] and his dad - his dad being the most awful individual inside the international. And it was like, 'allow's get Robert Duvall to play the dad!' And he was absolutely named Sonny with an 'O.' after which we said, 'What if it becomes Sunny with a 'U' and it's a female.' after which immediately it appeared like 'nicely why not get Kathy Bates?' I think we have been saying, 'allow's get a Kathy Bates-kind.'"

Mark additionally admitted that even as the film targets to be "anti-Christmas" in it's approach, the connection among Willie and Thurman Murman - the young boy performed through Brett Kelly - nonetheless gives the movie "all this heart".

He stated: "The script has this issue to it in which although it's type of a whole anti-Christmas film, it is also sneakily a Christmas film and has all this heart to it with this dating between Thurman and Willie."