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4 postsBrolin is nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 81st Academy Awards for portraying Dan White in Milk.
It feels surreal. I just got a call from Javier Bardem in Spain and he was flipping out and screaming. The reality is I got up at 5:55 here in Utah and looked at the clock and figured the nominations were announced and it didn’t happen. I said to myself, ‘That’s OK. I can deal with it.’ Then I realized there’s a one-hour time difference.
The Guardian interviews Brolin about why he fought with producers to let him grow a goatee for the film Labor Day.
For some reason, my face, when I have a goatee, is pretty f-cking scary. Even just in my life, I can see how it affects people. I mean, I don’t have tattoos any more. I used to have a lot of tattoos. And I remember being in business meetings with these dumb jailhouse tattoos and I would see how people reacted. They were always very freaked out.
Fallon and Brolin talk about Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Josh reminisces about the 30th anniversary of his first film, The Goonies.
You’re walking down the street, like 20 years later, and they’re like “Goonies, Dude! And I go, ‘Thanks’, and they go, ‘Are you still acting?’
Universal releases the first trailer for the Cohen brother’s comedy, Hail, Caesar!
