How Coen Brothers Messed With Josh Brolin On No Country For Old Men
Actor Josh Brolin thinks the Coen Brothers messed with him on the set of No Country for Old Men. The Oscar-winning film had Brolin playing Llewelyn Moss, a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad, leaving the scene with a satchel of money recovered from a dead man. This sets off a chain of events that has Moss on the run, pursued by Javier Bardem's assassin Anton Chigurh, as well as those wishing to retrieve the money. Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, the film also starred Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly Macdonald, Woody Harrelson, and Garret Dillahunt.
No Country for Old Men served as a career relaunch for Brolin, who followed the film with a number of notable roles that continued his rise in Hollywood, such as in W., American Gangster, and Men In Black 3. Having begun his acting career early on, appearing in films like The Goonies, Thrashin', and the TV series The Young Riders, Brolin's later roles would cement him in the A-list, particularly for his work as Thanos in the MCU, Cable in Deadpool 2, and a working relationship with Denis Villeneuve in both the Sicario and Dune franchises.
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While guesting on the YouTube show Hot Ones, Brolin recounts a story about a specific moment in No Country for Old Men which had the actor suggesting a line of dialogue (or rather, a sound) that he would later suspect turned into a long-game joke for Ethan Coen. When Brolin's character discovers the dead man by a tree with a satchel of money, the actor suggested that he should make a sound of some sort when he sees what's in the satchel. The directors had Brolin make a number of different grunts before having him settle on one in particular, which made
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