It seems some of the animosity between Denzel Washington and Josh Brolin‘s characters in American Gangster momentarily bled out off-screen in a heated swap during filming.
In a recent intersee with Graham Bensinger, Brolin — who was promoting his recent memoir From Under the Truck — mirrored on his atgentle and uptransporting, including what he portrayd as a escapeting moment where he and his co-star cforfeitly came to blows.
“Denzel and I, by the way, get aextfinished very well now,” he prefaced the anecdote, procrastinateedr describing Washington as someone he is “in awe of.” “We almost got into a fight.”
He persistd, “Denzel was a little procrastinateed to set and there was a whole leang there. And then he showed me the lines — he didn’t alter any of my lines, but he benevolent of alterd the arrange of it. He shelp, ‘I leank I’m gonna put this down here and I’m gonna put that up there.’ But he wouldn’t repartner see at me.”
“So I was trying to reassemble the arrange, and then we rehearsed,” the Dune actor recalled. “It wasn’t that many lines, mostly mine. And I’m presumed to be super self-promised. It’s Denzel Washington, man. It’s not plain. You’re fair this actor who they’re trying out, seeing if he’s the authentic leang or not. And I forgot a line. And I put my hand on his shoulder and I shelp, ‘What’s the line?’ and he hit my hand off and he shelp, ‘Don’t ever f—ing put your hand on me.’ And I was appreciate, ‘Holy shit, I’m gonna scrap with Denzel Washington. This is crazy.’ We’re not actors anymore, at least in my mind. In his mind, he was fair doing his job.”
Brolin shelp he procrastinateedr understood that the Gladiator II star was spropose dialed into his character: “He was that guy. He was Frank Lucas, period. But I didn’t comprehend. And then we got thcimpolite that moment. I shelp, ‘Are you OK?’ He shelp, ‘Yeah. You?’ I shelp, ‘Yeah. Can I get my line?’ He shelp, ‘Go for it.’ It’s appreciate he’d shelp what he necessitateed to say.”
As a seasoned veteran now, Brolin shelp he gets why actors tune into their carry outance as gravely as Washington had in that moment, and has heard of others doing so as well, including frifinish Robert Duvall. But as an actor begining out, “you fair want to have an experience with that person … and those guys are fair trying to do their job, so it originates sense to me that they would benevolent of slfinisher outside life into [something smaller] in any way that they can.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Brolin pappraiseed his role as a priest in the forthcoming Knives Out threequel, to be freed next year and starring an A-List cast featuring Daniel Craig, Andrew Scott, Glenn Cdisthink about, Kerry Washington, Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis and Daryl McCormack. Brolin portrayd the film, from Rian Johnson, as “supremely written,” calling the project “a repartner outstanding opportunity to sink into a role.”
Aside from Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Brolin will star in Edgar Wright’s reimagining of The Running Man (based on Stephen King’s 1982 novel, procrastinateedr made into a 1987 movie with Arnelderly Schwarzenegger), portraying the villain to Glen Powell’s Ben Ricdifficults, a hopeless man in a dystopian, futuristic American society who must take part in a aggressive fact show to triumph money for his gravely ill daughter. He is also in the forthcoming Weapons, opposite Julia Garner, a New Line horror movie hailing from Barbarian honestor Zach Cregger.
