The Independent<\/a>, Brolin\u00a0looked back fondly on his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n“There just seemed to be a perfect trajectory of 10 years,”\u00a0he recalled. “You’re in a f***ing onesie, and you have dots all over your face, and it\u2019s a joke, and you\u2019re having to totally rely on your imagination. It\u2019s so great.”<\/p>\n
Brolin has since worked with filmmaker\u00a0Denis Villeneuve on the Dune movies and later shared his take on the director’s plan to step behind the camera to reboot James Bond for Amazon MGM. “I think it\u2019s going to be f***ing fantastic,” the actor enthused. “I love spending time with him. I would do anything with Denis. Talk about a guy who hasn\u2019t drunk the Kool-Aid.”<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the conversation, Brolin was asked about the perceived similarities between his character, Monsignor Wicks, in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and President Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I could make something up and say it was rooted in a kind of Trumpian greed,” he started, adding that it wasn’t the case. “Wicks garners a sense of power, then there are no boundaries.”<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m not scared of Trump, because even though he says he\u2019s staying forever, it\u2019s just not going to happen. And if it does, then I\u2019ll deal with that moment,” he added. “But having been a friend of Trump before he was president, I know a different guy.”<\/p>\n
They got to know each other while Brolin was shooting\u00a0Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. “I\u2019m sure there was a lot of corruption involved,” he says of Trump building a $400 million hotel, “in the middle of a cesspool city during the late Seventies \u2013 that\u2019s interesting to me. Now it\u2019s power unmitigated, it\u2019s unregulated.”<\/p>\n
“There is no greater genius than him in marketing \u2013 he takes the weakness of the general population and fills it,” Brolin noted. “And that\u2019s why I think a lot of people feel that they have a mascot in him. I think it\u2019s much less about Trump than it is about the general population and their need for validation.”<\/p>\n
It’s hard to imagine anything Brolin has said being considered that controversial, but politics remains a divisive, hotbed topic, particularly in America right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back to Thanos, and we’ll likely get to see what the Russo Brothers have planned for Brolin when\u00a0Avengers: Doomsday\u00a0is released on December 18, 2026.\u00a0Avengers: Secret Wars\u00a0is scheduled to arrive on December 17, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin first played Thanos in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, but it wasn’t until Avengers: Infinity War…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,12773,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-322307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-josh-brolin","10":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}