Billy Bob Thornton was asked by Landman co-star Michelle Randolph if he really drank Angelina Jolie’s blood

These days, Billy Bob Thornton has become best known for his role as Tommy Norris on Landman.

However, there was a time when he was best known for his headline-making relationship with Angelina Jolie, who is 20 years his senior, and moreover, the infamous vials they had of each other’s blood.

The infamous pop-culture moment left an impression on many, among them his 28-year-old current co-star Michelle Randolph.

Michelle, who stars as Billy Bob’s Landman character Tommy’s daughter Ainsley Norris, speaking with Drew Barrymore on The Drew Barrymore Show this week, confessed that upon getting cast as Billy Bob’s on-screen daughter on the Taylor Sheridan hit, all she knew about him was the notorious blood vial moment.

Recalling their first days on set, she said: “Most of my scenes are with him, and I’m thinking, ‘God, like what, all I know is that he drank Angelina Jolie’s blood or something,'” revealing that she has since asked him about it.

Though Michelle didn’t share what answer she got from Billy Bob, she did say of him: “He just, I mean, he’s just ease,” adding: “If ease was a person, that’s who he is.

“She further gushed: “That’s why he’s so good at what he does. You think someone with his résumé is going to be so intimidating, but instead, he’s such a great actor because he pulls honesty out of you and he settles you in a scene and in life.”

“I tend to talk a lot and move fast and he just makes me want to just chill,” she emphasized. 

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Billy Bob’s relationship with Angelina

After dating for two months, Angelina and Billy Bob got married on May 5, 2000, a month shy of her 25th birthday. Their many displays of affection drew constant attention from the media, though arguably none more than when they wore vials allegedly filled with each other’s blood, which they supposedly drank.

Addressing the infamous blood dials in a November 2025 interview with Rolling Stone, he said they “never existed,” explaining: “We each had a little locket, literally with a drop of blood in them. 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.”

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Angelina and Billy Bob adopted her son Maddox from Cambodia in March 2002, but separated three months later, finalizing their divorce in May 2003.

They nonetheless remain close friends, with Billy Bob also telling Rolling Stone: “Angelina and I had a great time together. That was one of the greatest times of my life. She and I are still very, very close friends. And that was the one that ended up being a really civilized break-up. We simply split up because our lifestyles were so different.”