Saturday
04Oct2008
Josh Brolin Had Doubts About 'W.'
Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 1:35AM
"Why me?"
That's the question
Josh Brolin asked himself when he was given a
script for the new movie
W.
Oliver Stone - who
recently
admitted he tried to get Christian Bale to play the current American
president - sought out Brolin after his well-documented successes last year.
"Why would I want to do this movie," he asked. "Why would I want to do this to
my career?" 
"Oliver has been extremely compassionate and fair here. He is tirelessly interested in the question: what made Bush Bush? And despite whatever negative opinions I may have had about the Bush Administration before I began the movie, my mission became not to find out why Bush was so bad, but why people had voted for him."Brolin also reveals that he had an opportunity to meet President Bush at this year's White House Correspondents Dinner in April, but he passed on the opportunity because he didn't believe it would have informed the work ahead of him. "How was 15 minutes with Bush supposed to help me in portraying his whole life?" he says. "Getting to meet him would have been a diversion." We'll see Brolin as W. when Stone's new film arrives in theaters on October 17th.
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Reader Comments (3)
Psst! It's not "The Times of London", it's "The Times".
First off, if the writer didn't say "The Times of London," we would naturally assume he was talking about The New York Times." Second, the story was intriguing, albeit too short...I have been trying for years to find compassion in my (very warm and loving) heart for George W....I have more understanding and pity for Adolph Schickengruber than I do for our Wretched Prez...but perhaps this film will help me to attain my goal of forgiving Everyone for the Evil they do...because I truly believe that Free Will is a myth..." 'Tis all a checkerboard of nights and days, where Destiny with men for pieces plays..." Or "There is a destiny that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may..." The only thing is, somebody should have impeached W before he could do what it is he does, again and again and again....
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Josh Brolin did a convincing Dubya, though he reminded me a lot of his cowboy character from No Country for Old Men... over all, i don't doubt that 'W.' will have the effect Oliver Stone desired