Tom Cruise attends the Australian premiere of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” on July 3, 2023,. Getty Images ...

Billy Bob Thornton does not want to be remembered as a villain. As for declining to be in a comic book movie, Thornton's reasoning was far more practical. "With the Green Goblin, I didn't feel ...

Billy Bob Thornton rejected the chance to play a Mission: Impossible III villain because he "didn't want to be the guy trying to kill Tom Cruise". The Bad Santa actor wasn't interested in ...

“And with ‘Mission: Impossible III,’ I didn’t want to be the guy trying to kill Tom Cruise. If you’re the bad guy in a big movie like that, audiences remember it forever ...

With the Green Goblin, I didn’t feel like getting up at 4 a.m. for five or six hours of makeup… And with ‘Mission: Impossible III,’ I didn’t want to be the guy trying to kill Tom Cruise.

Years later, he was up for the role of the villain in “Mission: Impossible 3.” “I don’t have much interest in those kinds of roles,” he said. “With the Green Goblin, I didn’t feel ...

The Oscar winner recently explained why he turned down “the bad guy” roles in Spider-Man (2002) and Mission: Impossible III (2006), noting he likes to be “looser and less predictable” in ...

Billy Bob Thornton has told how he rejected two high-profile movie villain parts, in 'Mission: Impossible III' and 'Spider-Man', because he doesn't like to portray a "bad guy in a big movie".