BILLY BOB THORNTON SCARED BY CLOWNS
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[ October 16th 2001 ]

Billy Bob Thornton says he's afraid of clowns as well as antiques. He says his character in the new film Bandits has some of his real-life phobias, but he insists he and his wife Angelina Jolie are not "weirdos", Ananova reports today.

Thornton said about clowns: "It's like you don't really know the guy that's lurking behind the face." He also recently revealed he can't breathe when he's near antique furniture. "I get creeped out and I can't breathe and I can't eat around it," he said.

"But it's only certain kinds of antique furniture. It mostly ... has to do with France and England. I've had friends tell me that maybe I was beaten to death with an antique chair in a former life. I don't know. I'm not really sure what that's all about."

The Singer/Director also confessed that recent terrorist activity aimed at the U.S. has heightened his fear of flying. "My fear of flying was actually greater before [Sept. 11]. I've actually been getting over my fear the last few years. Frankly, if we're [Angelina Jolie) together on a plane, I never worry."

Tomb Raider starlet Angelina Jolie agrees. "If anything ever happens, we'll look each other in the eyes and smile and hold hands and that'll be the deal."

The quirky couple hit the headlines earlier this year after revealing they both wear vials of each other's blood around their necks. Thornton countered a media rap by saying: "We have no dungeon. We don't drink blood. I don't eat just orange food. There's a lot of stuff that's just not true."