AUSTIN, Texas, April 6 (UPI) -- Billy Bob Thornton says he and some of his co-stars got tattoos in Texas to commemorate their experience working on the western, "The Alamo."
"I got a bunch of tattoos already," he told reporters in Austin. "It's not like I need another one, but I just thought one day it would be nice to have a Texas flag on my back that says, 'Remember the Alamo.'"
Thornton said he, actors Kevin Page and Robert Prentiss, and an on-set woman animal wrangler took a trip to a nearby tattoo parlor.
"We all went down and had a couple and got a tattooed," he recalled. "What was really funny was that Kevin Page turned out to be the Charlie Brown of the group because the guy kind of messed up one of the letters on his... It said, 'Rememler the Alamo.' There was a 'l' instead of a 'b,' so we gave him quite a bit of grief over that. Everything became that. We would say, 'Hey is your birthday in Septemler?'"
"But, it actually meant a lot to us. It was kind of like a symbol that the four of us are bonded in that way over the movie. I don't know if I'll do that on every movie, though. My makeup artist would kill me," he said.
