'We check in on each other all the time!' Billy Bob Thornton gushes about ex-wife Angelina Jolie as he promotes new show

She obviously had a profound affect on him.

Billy Bob Thornton spoke about ex-wife Angelina Jolie in glowing terms in an interview with relationship website YourTango.

The star of new FX series Fargo gushed: 'We check in on each other all the time.'

'She's amazing!' Billy Bob Thornton, pictured at the Paley Centre in New York earlier this month, talked fondly about ex-wife Angelina Jolie as he promoted his new FX TV mini-series Fargo

The 58-year-old added: 'She's amazing, amazing. She's got so much energy and so much goodness in her.'

'She makes sure I'm doing okay,' he continued. 'I make sure she's doing okay.'

The actor and Angelina, who is 20 years his junior, were married for two tempestuous years. They split in 2002 and divorced the following year.

Stormy past: Billy Bob, now 58, and Angelina, who is 20 year his junior, attended the Golden Globes together in Los Angele in 2002, just a few months before their split 

The beautiful brunette met fiance Brad Pitt on the set of their movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2004. They stepped out as a couple in 2005 after Brad's then wife Jennifer Aniston filed for divorce, and now share six kids.

Billy Bob has been in a relationship with makeup effects crew member Connie Angland since 2003 and they have a daughter, Bella, 10.

The Sling Blade actor has been putting in lots of time face time promoting Fargo, a TV spinoff from the 1996 movie.

Like the bigscreen Fargo, the 10-episode mini-series, is set in rural Minnesota but years later.

Fargo foray: The actor stars in the TV mini-series spinoff of the Coen brothers movie on FX

Executive produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, who created the film, the reboot is stocked with new characters, deadly mischief and stars including Allison Tolman as a bright-eyed deputy and Martin Freeman as a nerdy insurance salesman, echoing the roles played by Frances McDormand and William H. Macy in the film.
Supporting cast includes Colin Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, Oliver Platt, Kate Walsh, Keith Carradine, Adam Goldberg, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.

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