![]() ![]() I had no idea what I was doing, and it was perfect.” That first day, the feeling that I had absolutely made the wrong choice meant I had made absolutely the right choice. “Suddenly I’m in the nucleus of this insane stand-up comic fest,” he says. Miller, Terry Crews, and Rob Delaney) was daunting. Beyond the drastic body transformation required for the role, keeping up with the on-set riffing of his co-stars (including funnymen T.J. Imagine a cross between Marvel’s heavily strapped Punisher, Zack Morris from Saved By the Bell, and the cartoonishly manic “S-s-s-s-somebody stop me!” shtick of Jim Carrey in The Mask and you get an idea of Deadpool’s hyper-violent comic energy.įor Brolin, the chance to play a time-travelling cybernetic foil, the straight man to Reynolds’s wisecracking stooge, offered a unique challenge. The original Deadpool movie was a long-gestating pet project of Canadian Ryan Reynolds, who saw potential in a D-string superhero whose artillery includes winking meta-humour among a cachet of automatic weapons and twin samurai swords. ![]() “My wife, very smartly and sweetly, pointed out that I was rebelling against being in one of these movies. “I’ve said no to a couple of bigger movies that were this type of thing,” Brolin explains. Then he got his hands on the script for Deadpool 2. ![]() Even his turns as Thanos in Marvel’s shared “Cinematic Universe” were, until Infinity War, mostly cameos. Instead, he focused on smaller, meatier character roles, drawing praise for his comic turn as a clean-cut cop in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice and as a maniacal Department of Justice operative in Denis Villeneuve’s drug cartel thriller Sicario (Brolin reprises the role in the forthcoming Sicario sequel, also due this summer). In 2014, it was reported that Brolin turned down the role of Batman in D.C.’s newly launched Justice League universe, a role that subsequently went to Ben Affleck. “Everything bit me in the ass.” He ended up apologizing to co-stars John Malkovich, Megan Fox, and Michael Fassbender for involving them in the movie. “Nothing turned out,” Brolin remembers, running through the film’s laundry list of failures. The film was a massive flop, and savaged critically. In 2010, he starred in the supernatural cowboy thriller Jonah Hex, based on a relatively obscure D.C. Until now, Brolin’s exposure to the modern mega-scale superhero blockbuster had been limited and largely unrewarding. In addition to facing off against Ryan Reynolds’s wiseass hyper-violent Marvel Comics mercenary in Deadpool 2, Brolin’s also playing the galaxy-gallivanting baddie Thanos in Marvel’s superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War, already projected to be the most profitable movie of 2018. Brolin’s buffed for a blockbuster spring. ![]()
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