{"id":49170,"date":"2025-08-06T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49170\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:34:08","slug":"josh-brolin-and-julia-garner-clash-in-weapons-but-bonded-off-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49170\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin and Julia Garner Clash in \u2018Weapons\u2019 But Bonded Off-Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJosh Brolin<\/a> and Julia Garner<\/a> have a lot of friends in common, so when they found their way to lead roles in Zach Cregger<\/a>\u2019s Weapons<\/a>, those pals whispered all good things in their ears.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeople kept saying, \u2018You guys are going to love each other and it\u2019s going to be great,\u2019\u201d Brolin explained to The Hollywood Reporter at the film\u2019s Los Angeles premiere last Thursday. \u201cI got nervous then because I kept thinking, well, what if it\u2019s not great? I\u2019m not going to agree to work with someone just because another person tells me that I\u2019m going to like \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpoiler alert: They loved each other.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe just hit it off immediately,\u201d Brolin said with a smile. \u201cLike immediate cellular, sibling shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBrolin and Garner at a Weapons screening at New York\u2019s AMC Empire.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures)<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen they got to Cregger\u2019s Atlanta set, the bond formed instantly, despite the fact that their characters spend a chunk of time locking horns on screen. The horror thriller from Warner Bros.<\/a> Pictures and New Line<\/a> casts Garner as Justine Gandy, a teacher who awakens to learn that 17 of the 18 children in her classroom simultaneously got out of bed and ran off into the night, all at the same time of 2:17 a.m. Brolin plays Archer Graff, a grieving father intent on finding his missing child and suspicious that Gandy had something to do with it.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you\u2019ve seen the trailer or the newest scene released by the studio last week, then you know that Brolin and Garner were tasked with some intense exchanges in front of cameras, but that mood didn\u2019t bleed into their trailers. \u201cWe hung out a lot, which never happens,\u201d continued Brolin about his co-star, who also just so happens to be a fellow alum of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (He starred as Thanos in the Avengers franchise, while she\u2019s still on screen playing Silver Surfer in The Fantastic Four: First Steps.)\u201cI like my own space and she likes her own space but we spent a lot of time together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSame with Amy Madigan. \u201cI\u2019ve known Amy for a long time, and I\u2019d come out of the [soundstage] and there she was with all this makeup on and it scared the shit out of me,\u201d Brolin admitted. \u201cI\u2019d want to stay away from her but at the same time, it was Amy and she\u2019s so sweet. Everybody was great on this movie, man. It was just one of those communal experiences that you hope to always have when you\u2019re working.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tGarner and Brolin in Weapons.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tQuantrell Colbert\/Warner Bros.<\/p>\n

\n\t Garner confirmed the love-fest. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWorking with this guy was amazing,\u201d she said with Brolin over her shoulder on the red carpet inside the Broadway Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. \u201cWe had so much fun. We spent every day giggling and laughing. He\u2019s one of my favorite actors and he\u2019s just the best. Getting to meet him was incredible, and then working with him was incredible because of who he is as a person. He\u2019s so present as an actor. It really was a truly remarkable experience all around.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tCregger called them both \u201cexceptional\u201d talents, and credited their versatility. \u201cThe reason I love them both is that they are dramatic actors who are incredible at comedy so they can live in the same kind of tone,\u201d he detailed. \u201cThe horror genre sometimes gets a little sidelined in terms of talent. It\u2019s been doing a lot better lately but you don\u2019t usually get to attract people of their caliber to projects like this one. I feel really fortunate to have them and the entire cast.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAlden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, June Diane Raphael, Luke Speakman, Benedict Wong, Clayton Ferris, Toby Huss and Whitmer Thomas round out the cast. Weapons opens Aug. 8.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAustin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Garner, Cregger, Brolin, Cary Christopher, Alden Ehrenreich, June Diane Raphael and Amy Madigan at the L.A. premiere. \u201cIt\u2019s a really great cast,\u201d Ehrenreich told THR. \u201cIt was one of the best scripts that I\u2019ve ever read, and then I met Zach and he explained where it was coming from, it all made it make perfect sense because he\u2019s writing about real human experience. He\u2019s not just writing fanfare for people to digest as entertainment. When you\u2019re working on something that\u2019s from someone\u2019s vision, it just makes it all so much better. I just loved it. It\u2019s one of my favorite films I\u2019ve worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by Frazer Harrison\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin and Julia Garner have a lot of friends in common, so when they found their way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,14158,14070,4431,4432,8725,14159],"class_list":["post-49170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-josh-brolin","tag-julia-garner","tag-new-line","tag-warner-bros","tag-weapons","tag-zach-cregger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170","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=49170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}