Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible III” in 2006. Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection ...

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 ...

He promises Hunt that he will find Julia, hurt her, and Ethan will be too dead to help her. The mission is no more different to others, its dangerous, smart, and impossible; but now it's personal.

“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 ...

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".

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 ...