Kathy Bates to play a bad mom in Bad Santa 2
As reported by The Wrap, Kathy Bates has been hired to play the “foul-mouthed mother” of Billy Bob Thornton’s foul-mouthed Papa Noel in Bad Santa 2. As we reported earlier this month, Mean Girls’ Mark Waters will be directing the sequel, with Entourage creator Doug Ellin, If I Stay’s Shauna Cross, and a newcomer named Johnny Rosenthal each contributing to the script in some way. Maybe one of them wrote the basic plot, then another was in charge of adding in references to Bad Santa drinking a lot, and the third one came up with inappropriate things for Bad Santa to say. The character was named Bad Santa, right?