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Billy Bob Thornton keeps it cool in a pair of shades as he hits the red carpet at the premiere of his latest film Bad Santa 2 held at AMC Loews Lincoln Square on Tuesday (November 15) in New York City.

The 61-year-old actor was joined at the event by his co-stars Kathy Bates, Christina Hendricks, Brett Kelly, Tony Cox and Ryan Hansen, as well as Christina‘s husband Geoffrey Arend, Alysia Reiner, Dan Amboyer and Lewis Black, who all came out to show their support.

That same day, Kathy made an appearance on the TODAY show to talk about American Horror Story and her role in Bad Santa 2.

“I really go to play a role that I guess is the most deviant character I’ve ever played and I just jumped into the deep end,” Kathy expressed. “It was a dream of mine, I’ve been a big fan of the first movie Bad Santa so when they asked if I wanted to play Billy Bob’s mother, I said ‘where do I sign?’.” Watch the trailer for Bad Santa 2 here!

FYI: Christina is wearing a Tadashi Shoji gown paired with Maxior gold black onyx earrings and gold ring.

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Billy Bob Thornton gets back into the Santa Claus costume in the official Red Band trailer for his anticipated film Bad Santa 2!

Here’s an official synopsis: Bad Santa 2 returns the 61-year-old actor to the screen as America’s favorite anti-hero, Willie Soke. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus (Tony Cox), to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is ‘the kid’ – chubby and cheery Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly), a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie’s sliver of humanity. Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie’s horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke (Kathy Bates). A super butch super bitch, Sunny raises the bar for the gang’s ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior. Willie is further burdened by lusting after the curvaceous and prim Diane (Christina Hendricks), the charity director with a heart of gold and libido of steel.

Bad Santa 2 is coming to theaters November 23, 2016 – Watch the trailer below!