The ever-lovable Josh Brolin recently sat down for an interview with our buddy awkward Josh Horowitz over at MTV (video below the cut). Horowitz asked Brolin about Jonah Hex, and whether he was proud of the film. Candid as always, Brolin says no, which is one of the reasons he’s so damn cool. But he did have a few caveats:
Awkward Josh: “Reassess the Jonah Hex situation for us, are you proud of the film?”
Keep Brolin Brolin Brolin: “You mean now that I don’t have to promote it? No.”
“We had an original intention and that got away from us a little bit. Everybody did do their best to try and create the best movie with what we had, but I think it got so derailed at a certain point that the assemblage of what we could use was so disconnected to what our original intention was that it just got mixed up.”
“I still think it’s a lot of fun if you go in and see that movie. That’s what I told the marketing people at Warner Bros. I said, ‘I can’t lie about this, so I have to look for a truism that I can go with. So I do think that if you go in there, kind of like with ‘Piranha 3-D’ — when you go to see that movie you go, ‘This is ridiculous and this is fun’ — so if you went into ‘Jonah Hex’ with that, I think you had a good time.”
You’re wrong, Josh Brolin, I had a GREAT time. Piranha 3D was okay, but I had a way better time at Jonah Hex. The wink-wink, tongue-in-cheek stuff like Machete and Piranha 3D can be great if it’s done well, but it will never be as good as when you can sense that there was an earnest attempt to create a serious movie. It’s the difference between a clown wearing wacky clothes for attention, and John Malkovich showing up to the bar dressed like this, going “What? What are you guys looking at? I thought we were partyin.”
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So what he’s saying is that it’s JUST like a Juggalo baby funeral? I can live with that. Juggalo babies can’t.
Having to promote a movie that you aren’t proud of is probably like having to explain to your friends why you fucked a fat chick.
it got so derailed at a certain point that the assemblage of what we could use was so disconnected to what our original intention was that it just got mixed up., said Obama supporters.
Josh Brolin will knock your dick off and put it back on upside down so you piss in your own face.
This is neither here nor there, but, I always find it refreshing when Hollywood people admit they are aware of other things or people in popular culture, like Brolin did here with Piranha. I fucking hate it when some celebrity is getting interviewed and they act as though they’ve never heard of some other famous person or their work. Or they intentionally mispronounce a “household name”. Shits annoying. Okay, then. Good talk everybody, thanks.
The old adage is still so true . . . With enough beer, a 10-o-clock 2 turns into a 2-o-clock Jonah Hex.
A while back, Bill Murray claimed to have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld. How is that possible?
That’s probably how Raul Julia feel about Street Fighter.
Pauly, Raul is probably Psycho Crushing in his grave.
Later in the interview, Josh Horowitz tries to get all space jew on Brolin’s ass with a Smirnoff Ice:
JH: “Boo ya! I just ‘iced a BRO-lin’, *guffaw*!”
JB: “Don’t make me kill a fuckin’ jew and shithole his cheap ‘WHORE-owitz’ of a mother, Barry!”
JH “…”
God, Zero. That was awesome.
I wonder what his thoughts on Thrashin’ are.
Being in a movie that you regret makes you feel the same as having that tribal band with a Superman ‘S’ in the middle tattoo’d on your arm 13 years ago.