{"id":870795,"date":"2026-08-27T23:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870795\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:38:14","slug":"josh-brolin-interview-why-this-photo-of-jacob-elordi-may-be-the-biggest-bond-hint-yet-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870795\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin interview: Why this photo of Jacob Elordi may be the biggest Bond hint yet | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: The odds on Australian actor Jacob Elordi<\/a> landing the coveted James Bond role<\/a> are about to shorten, thanks to a slip up from his The Dog Stars<\/a> co-star.<\/p>\n

Josh Brolin<\/a> \u2013 who plays Bangley, best friend to Elordi\u2019s character Hig \u2013 confirms to nine.com.au that he\u2019s spoken about the casting with his good friend Denis Villeneuve, the Canadian director and screenwriter at the helm of the new 007 era<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The odds on Australian actor Jacob Elordi (left) landing the coveted James Bond role are about to shorten, thanks to a slip up from his The Dog Stars co-star Josh Brolin (right).\u00a0Fabio Lovino\/ 20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\u201cDenis is a really close friend of mine, and I haven\u2019t spoken to him [actually] I have spoken to him about it,\u201d Brolin, 58, reveals in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019d be fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he had specifically petitioned for Elordi, 28, to get the role as the iconic British spy, Brolin becomes coy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying anything. I think he\u2019d be great,\u201d he responds.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel Craig was so great that it\u2019s very hard, and there\u2019s nobody better than \u2013 we were talking about this yesterday, and we were going, \u2018Why is Denis doing [this]?\u2019 You have to reinvent the whole thing but still within the parameters of what Bond is. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really, it\u2019s a difficult thing to do, but I can\u2019t think of anybody better than Denis to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Tanya<\/p>\n

And if there\u2019s one person who knows what Villeneuve (second right) is looking for, it\u2019s Brolin (far right) who has worked with the acclaimed director multiple times over more than a decade.\u00a0Cedric Ribeiro\/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n

And if there\u2019s one person who knows what Villeneuve is looking for, it\u2019s Brolin, who has worked with the acclaimed director multiple times over more than a decade, starring in Sicario (2015), Dune: Part One (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024) and the upcoming Dune: Part Three (December 2026).<\/p>\n

Part of why Brolin would recommend the Wuthering Heights star for the action flick is the adaptability Elordi showed while working on The Dog Stars under director Ridley Scott, who is known for a unique style of filming with little rehearsal. <\/p>\n

It left the acting legend impressed with the Brisbane-born star.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just a really pleasant, very professional, very willing [actor],\u201d Brolin tells nine.com.au.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou talk about the chaos of what we were doing. It\u2019s very different for a 28-year-old than it is for a 58-year-old and somebody who\u2019s been around. <\/p>\n

\"Benedict<\/p>\n

Brolin (second right) works alongside not only Elordi (far right) but another Australian actor he\u2019s admired for years, Guy Pearce (far left).\u00a0Getty Images for The Walt Disney Company Limited<\/p>\n

\u201cI can adjust to that chaos fairly easily \u2013 even though it\u2019s out there that I wasn\u2019t adjusting very well – whereas Jacob, I think, was in a similar panic, but we relied on each other in a way that I think works for the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this movie, Brolin works alongside not only Elordi but another Australian actor he\u2019s admired for years, Guy Pearce.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuy is amazing, and I got along with Guy so well,\u201d Brolin tells nine.com.au <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had known each other through other people, and kind of said \u2018hello\u2019, but never really spent any time together but it was instantaneous, the friendship.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, I don\u2019t like to say this, but the respect – I mean, I\u2019ve really respected what he\u2019s done, I\u2019m a fan of a lot of his films.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Brolin, Pearce has also worked with Scott multiple times.<\/p>\n

\"Guy<\/p>\n

Pearce, who got his start on Aussie series Neighbours, jokes that he doesn\u2019t believe Scott is casting him for his soap acting experience.\u00a0nine.com.au<\/p>\n

But he admits he doesn\u2019t have first-hand knowledge as to why the famed director enjoys working with so many Aussies, including the likes of Cate Blanchett, Joel Edgerton, Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, and now Elordi (who Pearce says \u201cbrings a pretty soulful quality to set\u201d).<\/p>\n

Pearce, who got his start on Aussie series Neighbours, jokes that he doesn\u2019t believe he\u2019s being hired for his soap star experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some pretty bad habits you pick up working on soaps,\u201d Pearce admits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to unlearn a few things as well I think. So I don\u2019t know that Ridley\u2019s casting us because we were on Home and Away or Neighbours to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Brolin is also no stranger to working alongside Australians \u2013 including Russell Crowe, Sam Worthington, Chris Hemsworth and Naomi Watts \u2013 and has a great affinity towards them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralians are good, man,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n

\"Benedict<\/p>\n

Brolin (right) is no stranger to working alongside Australians, including Chris Hemsworth (left), and has a great affinity towards them.\u00a0Jesse Grant\/Getty Images for Disney<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re really good because they\u2019re rough and tumble, and I get it because I grew up rough and tumble, as much as people think I was raised with a silver spoon in my mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was around a lot of guys that remind me of a lot of Australians that I\u2019ve gotten to know. And when you\u2019re that comfortable with, again, uncertainty, it\u2019s really fun to be around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dog Stars is in cinemas around Australia on August 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: The odds on Australian actor Jacob Elordi landing the coveted James Bond role are about to shorten,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-870795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}