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    Josh Brolin Was Tempted to Assume Steven Spielberg Was a ‘Dick’ Throughout ‘The Goonies’

    David GroveBy David GroveJanuary 31, 20253 Mins Read
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    Josh Brolin Was Tempted to Assume Steven Spielberg Was a ‘Dick’ Throughout ‘The Goonies’
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    Josh Brolin is trying again on the recommendation Steven Spielberg gave him at age 16.

    Brolin, who had a breakout position in “The Goonies” which Spielberg created the story for, recalled throughout SiriusXM’s “Actually! With Rob Lowe” podcast how Spielberg suggested him to “simply act” as an alternative of overthink the half.

     ”I believe ‘Goonies’ was fairly an accident,” Brolin stated of being solid within the movie. “I went in there, they pulled the Brolin factor: ‘Are you [James] Brolin’s child, yeah, OK, you wish to be an actor, huh?’ So as an alternative of that nepotistic factor, they checked out me and have been like, ‘Oh yeah? So act.’ And I’d be like, ‘I’m not going that can assist you.’ So I studied, I received Stanislavski books, Grotowski, ‘The Poor Theater,’ and Antonin Artaud, ‘The Theater of Cruelty.’ I stayed in a bookstore 90 p.c of the time. Simply studying, studying, studying. Then I met [director] Dick Donner and Steven Spielberg, and I simply regarded proper for that half.”

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    Brolin continued, “You take a look at [co-star] Sean Astin, you take a look at the kind of film it’s…I regarded like a little bit of a nasty boy, however type of a jock, and I used to be in fine condition, so that they have been like, ‘That’s the man.’ I went again six instances, simply so they may be certain that, after which I did it.”

    Throughout manufacturing, although, Brolin realized that his “dangerous boy” look was extra essential this his suggestions on the script or concepts for added scenes.

    “I used to be on the set, studying all these items with these tiny wood trailers. I got here to Steven in some unspecified time in the future, we have been in one of many tunnels, and I stated, ‘Hey, Steven, can I speak to you for a second?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, positive,’” Brolin stated, including that he was a “actually dumb” teenager already as a result of he had “missed loads of faculty.”

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    Brolin added, “So I stated [to Steven], ‘Hey, don’t you assume that the tunnels form of characterize my mom’s womb? And what if we movie me climbing up the tunnel, however actually I’m attempting to chop that emotional umbilical wire of my mom, and I may have tears coming down my face?’ I went into this complete factor, and I used to be getting all excited as a result of he was nodding his head, after which I waited. After which he checked out me and he stated, ‘Why don’t you simply act? Simply say the phrases on the web page, you’ll be advantageous.’ And I may have been like, ‘Dick!’ However I didn’t, I used to be like, ‘Oh, completely. I received it.’”

    Brolin’s “Goonies” co-star Ke Huy Quan beforehand stated that there have been “quite a few scripts” for a potential “Goonies” sequel, however that “there was not one script that felt it may dwell as much as what the unique was.” Ke additionally pointed to the truth that unique director Richard Donner handed away in 2021.

    “Sadly we misplaced the captain of our ship Dick Donner,” Ke stated, “and I actually don’t know if there’s going to be a ‘Goonies 2,’ however I might actually like to revisit the character of Knowledge if there is a chance.”

    New episodes of SiriusXM’s “Actually! With Rob Lowe” can be found each Thursday on the SiriusXM app and wherever podcasts can be found. 

     



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