Billy Bob Thornton is getting candid on his relationship with Angelina Jolie.
The “Landman” star, 70, and the “Couture” actress, 50, were married in the early aughts from 2000 to 2003 and famously wore vials of each other’s blood.
“We each had a little locket, literally with a drop of blood in them,” Thornton said during an interview with Rolling Stone. “That’s a romantic little idea, and that’s all that was. But by the time it’s over, we’re vampires. We live in a dungeon, we drink each other’s blood, and this kind of stuff.”
The actor stressed that after their short-lived marriage, he and Jolie parted on good terms.
“And of course, Angelina [Jolie] and I had a great time together. That was one of the greatest times of my life,” continued Thornton. “She and I are still very, very close friends. And that was the one that ended up being a really civilized breakup. We simply split up because our lifestyles were so different.”
He also called their marriage a “pretty weird” time.
“When we met, I was the more famous one. And then when we got together, for some reason, the people and the media are very interested in celebrity couples, that seems to be a very popular thing,” Thornton expressed. “So, it was weird. We couldn’t go anywhere. I mean, we did, and then of course we had times when we would say things that became sound bites or whatever.”
The exes first met while filming the 1999 comedy/drama “Pushing Tin.” A year later, Thornton and Jolie eloped in a Las Vegas ceremony after the “Sling Blade” star swiftly ended his engagement to Laura Dern.
But after two years of marriage, they called it quits for good in 2003.
Jolie told Vogue in 2004 about her divorce: “It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed.”
“Because we’re actors, we go away for months at a time and you grow and change separately,” she said. “I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it’s scary but … I think it can happen when you get involved and you don’t know yourself yet. It’s taken me a while to grow up, and I still think I’m not even close to it yet.”
This isn’t the first time Thornton spoke out about their blood vials.
“[A] vial of blood is very simple. Angie came home one day with a kit she bought,” he said in 2014 while at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film & Television, per E! News. “You know those lockets you buy that are clear and you put a picture of your grannie in it or something like that and wear it around your neck? That’s what it was.”
According to Thornton, it was Jolie’s idea to take things to the next level.
“She thought it would be interesting and romantic if we took a little razor blade and sliced our fingers, smeared a little blood on these lockets and you wear it around your neck just like you wear your son or daughter’s baby hair in one,” he continued. “Same thing. From that we were wearing quart jars of blood around our necks.”
In 2001, the media was sent into a frenzy after they caught wind of Thornton and Jolie’s blood vials.
“We’re not really that bizarre. People just write s–t like that,” the actor told The Post at the time.
“It would actually bore people if they knew how normal we were.”
“It’s not a big deal,” he urged about the blood. “It’s just a thing of blood. It’s a romantic gesture. If it was in a movie, people would think it was romantic. When it’s in real life, people think you’re a freak.”
He also gave insight into their relationship, explaining: “We order out every night. I do know how to make cheeseburgers. I do that every now and then on the weekend. My wife can’t make much.”
“She made me pancakes one day that were pretty strong. It was hard to get them apart. We don’t sit down at the table much. We eat standing up at the kitchen counter,” elaborated Thornton. “We’re such friends, we just enjoy hanging out in the kitchen talking. When there’s just two of you, it doesn’t make sense to sit down at a big table.”
Thornton has been married six times.
The “Tombstone” vet tied the knot once again in 2014 to Connie Angland. The couple share daughter, Bella, 21.
He gushed to Rolling Stone: “Connie and I have been together 23 years and married for 12. Our daughter is 20. So, I found the right spot to be.”
Jolie, meanwhile, married Brad Pitt in 2005 after meeting on the set of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” in 2004.
The pair married in 2014 and officially divorced in 2019. Pitt and Jolie are parents to Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
Jolie and Pitt, 61, finalized their divorce in December after a turbulent eight-year legal battle.
