![]() It was fun, and the language in the script was fun. So I enjoy that and I enjoy playing that. I’m sitting there smiling and then I see my body language is all contracted. With Tarantino, I find myself doing the same thing. I was laughing and squirming at the same time. She might as well have had a whip.ĮS: That scene was funny but it made me uncomfortable. He’s stuck with this image of himself which, when you go in his house, is completely turned upside down because you see him totally emasculated by his wife. That’s why he’s doing episodes of “Adam-12” and why he’s dressing up as a hippie on TV ads even though he hates the idea of hippies. He doesn’t care about the subject matter at hand. With the name Bigfoot, because he’s known for breaking down people’s doors with his foot, he wants to make an impact so badly, he has to resort to making a physical impact. JB: He’s somebody who’s fighting to have an impact. You write down more notes, and one day something clicks.ĮS: Please introduce the Bigfoot that appears on the screen. You read the book, slowly you read the book again, slowly. ![]() ![]() You start doing research, looking at pictures, writing things down. A lot of times, you start thinking about people you know that are similar. JB: You start pulling from wherever you can, because you don’t know what you’re going to do. How do you start putting Bigfoot together? I said yes right away.ĮS: So you’ve got the book, the script, this director, and your own input. Because not only was Paul extremely intimate with the book, he was incredibly impassioned by it, and I loved this character Bigfoot. So I got to hear it through Paul, which was perfect. I knew of Pynchon but I didn’t know his work. But I got a general overview of what it was. So I read it very quickly, which was useless (laughs). He said, “I would actually love for you to read right away, and I’ll come and see you in the morning.” JB: Paul (Thomas Anderson) called me directly, and said, “I may have some work for you.” I said, “Great! Can I see you when I get back?” Because I was leaving the next evening. I feel really good about this trajectory.ĮS: How did the part of Bigfoot come to you? I just did “Everest” and “Sicario,” and I feel good about both of them. I like the people that I’m working with a lot. Speaking by phone from Los Angeles last week, he was laid back and obviously proud of the character he helped to create.Įd Symkus: Your career is going in some really interesting directions these days, with “Men in Black 3,” “Oldboy,” the “Sin City” sequel and that short bit of playing Thanos in “Guardians of the Galaxy.” ![]() (He doesn’t like the story’s pot-smoking private eye protagonist played by Joaquin Phoenix.)īrolin, with a strong assist from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, makes the sharp-dressing Bigfoot both funny and menacing, which is quite an achievement. (He doesn’t want to play by the rules.) If he doesn’t like you, he’ll be sure to let you know. If he doesn’t want to do something, he won’t do it. Bjornsen - you can just call him Bigfoot, the nickname he earned due to his penchant for kicking down doors instead of knocking.īigfoot is a no-nonsense cop with a lousy attitude. weirdoes in 1970, Brolin takes on a different kind of cop role. With “Inherent Vice,” based on Thomas Pynchon’s hilariously complicated satirical noir novel about L.A. John O’Mara in “Gangster Squad” (2013) come to mind. Detective Trupo in “American Gangster” (2007) and Sgt. In recent years, Hollywood producers have been picking Josh Brolin as their go-to guy when they need someone to play a tough cop. ![]()
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