Josh Brolin
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488 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Josh Brolin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the most clear, you know, you think of Hemingway short stories, same thing, very, very clear, but a hundred percent them. And when his editor, he was writing and they were like, look, you know, you have sentences that are roughly 16 word sentences. Let's try to bring it down to 12. It was like, why the fuck are you trying to change my sentence? That's what I want to write.
And he was like, yeah, but if we can just economize it and get it down to 12. And then in that volley, he finally said, get out of here. I don't want you as my editor anymore. And a new editor came in and he said, okay, so look, roughly these sentences are 12 word sentences. Let's see if we can get it down to nine. Oh my God. And they were right.
Because when you start slashing and when you start taking all the vividity of it and the colorizing and all that kind of shit, and you go, what am I trying to convey here? And try to do it in the clearest way possible. There's a story toward the beginning of Where it's a little four-year-old kid and all this chaos is going around.
Mother's throwing cups through the window at the father and all that. But it's written like a Dr. Seuss story.
Everything.
Oh, my God. And then took off back to China for 20 years, 25 years doing fight coordinating and all this.
Saw Crazy Rich Asians and said, well, maybe I should go back and try it again. Oh,
What a story.
Like literally his family would be on the side, you know. Trying to understand what the fuck was going on in this country.
Okay, so basically they kept us away from it. A practically built ship on the biggest stage in all of Hollywood, which was on Warner Bros., filled with water, 110 foot high, long ship. And they blindfolded us and they finally let us, and we tried to see it and there was no way. And there was security outside and they backed us in. And then they said, look, we're going to put you underwater.
We have speakers underwater, which didn't exist. It was like some high-tech thing. And then we went under and they said, we're going to say three, two, one. We want you guys to come up, turn around and see the ship. And we want that organic reaction. And finally we went under and we go three, two, one. And we all came up and turned around and I saw it and I went, fuck.
It was like, holy shit. Whatever I said, it was the most organic reaction. Think about the amount of work it took to get that first reaction.
10%.
Because you don't know. You don't know. I mean, one of the things that I look back at, like Keith Ledger was supposed to do No Country and then dropped out at some point. And then they looked and looked and everybody wanted it. And they said, no, we have a very specific guy. And then I auditioned for it and I sent the video in and they said, who lit it? And all that kind of shit.
And it wasn't until I got, who was it, Matt? Matt was supposed to do Milk. He was. And then he had a scheduling conflict. And then Sean Penn, who I had just spent time with in Canada, said, what about Josh? Wow. So it's always I was supposed to do Birdman. I pulled out of Birdman because I needed to go see my son who was living in Thailand at the time. And then that ended up being Edward Norton.
At Jurassic Park, Chris Pratt. I just talked to Pratt the other day. Walk me.
It wasn't, I was going to be him. It was going to be me. He was going to play Chris Pratt. He didn't know, but it was going to be me. And Chris told me when we did Avengers together, we were sitting there talking to each other about whatever kids. And he goes, yeah, when I showed up, It was your face on all the drawings. Wow.
Which happened to me for Deadpool 2, which was supposed to be Brad Pitt at some point. Whoa. And I remember going and seeing all the drawings for Deadpool 2 and seeing all Brad's face. And I was like... Sorry. Yeah.
Right, right, right, right, right.
It's really interesting. Yeah.
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