Billy Bob Thornton says his character in the new film "Bandits" has some of his real-life phobias.
For one thing, Thornton's afraid of antique furniture.
"I get creeped out and I can't breathe and I can't eat around it," he told reporters recently. "But it's only certain kinds of antique furniture. It mostly . . . has to do with France and England."
The 46-year-old actor-screenwriter doesn't know the source of his fear.
"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," he said.
Thornton's also afraid of clowns.
"It's like you don't really know the guy that's lurking behind the face."
Although Thornton and his wife, Angelina Jolie, wear vials of each other's blood around their necks, he says they're not "weirdos."