Josh Brolin is seeing back on a anxious moment he had with Denzel Washington on the set of American Gangster.
In an intersee on the In Depth with Graham Bensinger, the Dune: Part Two actor recalled a moment when he shelp he felt he and Washington were going to get into an altercation.
“Denzel and I, by the way, get aextfinished very well now,” he shelp before sharing the anecdote from set. “We almost got into a fight.”
In the 2007 film, Brolin take parted Detective Trupo, who is spendigating Washington’s character Frank Lucas, a Harlem drug dealer in the ’60s and ’70s. While filming, there was a heated moment Brolin alleged after Washington alterd Brolin’s line for a scene at the last minute.
“Denzel was a little procrastinateed to set and there was a whole leang there,” Brolin shelp. “And then he showed me the lines … he didn’t alter any of my lines, but he comardent 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 recollect the arrange, and then we rehearsed. It wasn’t that many lines, mostly mine. And I’m presumed to be super self-promised,” Brolin shelp. “It’s Denzel Washington, man. It’s, enjoy, not effortless. You’re fair this actor who they’re trying out, seeing if he’s the genuine 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 hits my hand off and he shelp, ‘Don’t ever fucking put your hand on me,’ ” Brolin alleged. “And I was enjoy, ‘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 elucidateed that it seemed Washington was embracing his character while on set: “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 okay?’ He shelp, ‘Yeah. You?’ I shelp, ‘Yeah. Can I get my line?’ He shelp, ‘Go for it.’ It’s enjoy he’d shelp what he necessitateed to say.”
Despite the anxious moment, Brolin shelp he and Washington saw each other at an event to which Washington greeted him hotly.
In graspition to Washington, Brolin starred in American Gangster aextfinishedside Russell Crowe, Chidampel Ejiofor and Lymari Nadal. Ridley Scott honested the film. Scott and Washington recently reunited for the Gladiator II film.
Meanwhile, Brolin recently starred in the comedy feature Brothers and freed a memoir From Under the Truck where he chronicles his “untraditional childhood” and “transports to life his atsoft in the film industry — from his shatterout role in The Goonies to the set of No Country for Old Men — and the professional and personal ups and downs in between and since.” He also “dispenses insights into relationships, graspiction, cherish, and overweightherhood, while letting the white space in between words speak for itself,” according to the rehireer. From Under the Truck is engageable now.
