Josh Brolin

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q41396: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Count them as actor (7 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Social Network (2010): 2 lines

  1. theme (character template) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they were tied to as Snyder's top choice for Batman, per the speakers: The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the maker said so). Snyder's reported reasoning: the modern-day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg.
    “yeah, the modern day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:44:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting led to) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they were tied to as Snyder's top choice for Batman, per the speakers: The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read). Snyder offered Eisenberg Jimmy Olsen in BvS in the wake of The Social Network.
    “Zack Snyder offers, uh, Jimmy Olsen. to Jesse Eisenberg in the wake of this movie, for BVS.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:43:43 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. people (led to casting) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they were tied to as Snyder's top choice for Batman, per the speakers: Gone Girl ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read). While making Gone Girl, Affleck reportedly joked to his agent that he needed a heroic-chin movie after the evil-chin one.
    “the joke was the chin things in the script, he calls up his agent, while making Gone Girl, and says, like, I'm doing the evil chin movie now, you got to find me a heroic chin movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 1:06:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Max Landis: 1 line

  1. people (performance model) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they were tied to as Snyder's top choice for Batman, per the speakers: Max Landis ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read). David's pet theory is that Eisenberg chose to play Max Landis as Lex Luthor.
    “It also feels like he chose to play Max Landis more than he chose to play.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:44:48 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (10) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Josh Brolin → Guardians of the Galaxy. The Thanos of Guardians was a couple of scenes in a chair and very different in design and performance.
    “the character is very, very different in Guardians of the Galaxy”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:27:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (casting): Weapons → Josh Brolin. Cregger had just worked with Brolin, a Coens favorite, on Weapons.
    “You had just worked with Josh Brolin, of course, in weapons.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:14:06 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting): Josh Brolin → W.. Stone cast Brolin in W. right after No Country for Old Men; Brolin was at first not interested.
    “Stone then turned to Josh Brolin, who'd just come off no country for old men.”
    The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:43 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. people (same actor, two roles): Josh Brolin → Josh Brolin. Llewellyn Moss and W. Bush are both impulsive men who act and get in over their heads, though Moss at least realizes it.
    “They're both guys who act on impulse, and who get in way over their heads.”
    The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:38:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Josh Brolin: Brolin was skeptical of playing Bush and said, why make it when we could watch CNN; Stone said he was horrified to be thought of as Bush.
    “Why would we want to make a movie on him when we could just watch CNN?”
    The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:32:16 · Josh Brolin (0.85 sure it was them)