Lots of agoraphobics aren’t jerks. Even when they’re nervous. Billy Bob was a jerk. Agoraphobia isn’t a valid excuse in my book. (He didn’t seem all that nervous to me, in any case; he seemed unjustifiably angry.) Billy Bob deserved every boo he got from Canadian crowds.

I’ve seen him in interviews on tv before and he’s definitely a bit off. He doesn’t really make eye-contact, he always appears to be nervous and I think he does have a reputation for being pretty gruff. I don’t know what his deal is but he certainly doesn’t seem to relate to people in a “normal” way. I think that’s a lot of the reason whay some people become actors. But it doesn’t give him any right to treat people poorly.

The idea of doing any kind of live performance is terrifying to me. I could handle something like shooting scenes in a movie where you have more control over your environment, but being in a situation where I would feel socially trapped, couldn’t just stand up and walk away without humiliation — no second takes on the scene? I can’t even handle being in the middle of a row in a movie theater. I would obsess for days about the performance, build up the anxiety with a bunch of what-ifs. I haven’t heard this interview, but getting anxious and trying to cover it up, panicking a bit and saying the wrong thing, which just make the phobia that much worse next time…yeah, I really can see that happening. And yes, even us agoraphobics can just be jerks at times, being human and all.

Billy Bob, do you really think you’re too cool for school? i think not. I mean, c’mon, your name is “Billy Bob” …