{"id":316290,"date":"2025-11-30T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:24:06","slug":"no-greater-genius-than-him-in-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316290\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No Greater Genius Than Him in Marketing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJosh Brolin<\/a> says his character in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a> was not inspired by Donald Trump<\/a>, whom he recalls as a former friend and \u201cgenius\u201d in \u201cmarketing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a Saturday interview with The Independent<\/a>, the Oscar nominee said his portrayal of Monsignor Wicks in the latest Knives Out film was not based on the president. \u201cI could make something up and say it was rooted in a kind of Trumpian greed,\u201d he noted, adding that after \u201cWicks garners a sense of power, then there are no boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe topic prompted Brolin to touch on his former friendship with the president, further addressing speculation of Trump<\/a> running for a third term, which he predicted is \u201cjust not going to happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not scared of Trump, because even though he says he\u2019s staying for ever, it\u2019s just not going to happen. And if it does, then I\u2019ll deal with that moment,\u201d Brolin said. \u201cBut having been a friend of Trump before he was president, I know a different guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two met after Brolin starred in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps<\/a>, which the president was supposed to make a cameo in. Of Trump\u2019s business ventures, the actor argued that \u201cthere is no greater genius than him in marketing \u2014 he takes the weakness of the general population and fills it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I think a lot of people feel that they have a mascot in him,\u201d he added. \u201cI think it\u2019s much less about Trump than it is about the general population and their need for validation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin says his character in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery was not inspired by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,1376,75,14158],"class_list":{"0":"post-316290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-josh-brolin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}