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Inside the self-doubt, satisfaction, and daddy issues Josh Brolin is tangling with in Netflix's next Knives Out movie
Josh Brolin calls Rian Johnson’s Knives Out 3 “so well written, I don’t know if I’m good enough to do this”
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The next film in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise will hit Netflix sometime this year, and if it’s even half as good as the first two entries, then we’re in for a real treat. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will feature the return of Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, the smooth-talking detective from the first two films. The film will also star Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Josh Brolin, Thomas Haden Church, Kerry Washington, and a host of others.
Yeah, it’s a big deal. And according to one of the actors, the script was so good that he wondered if he was talented enough to be in the movie. During a guest appearance on Marc Maron WTF Podcast, Josh Brolin spoke about the upcoming film.
“That was one of those dangerous roles that showed up and said, ‘Do you want to do this?’ I read it and said, ‘This is so well written, I don’t know if I’m good enough to do this.’ You get out there and there’s big speeches, and I’m doing it in front of Glenn Close, and all these actors that I respect and love, and I’m shitting my pants. And they’re all super excited.”
“I prepped so hard for it, it was like I was doing my first role. I was sitting in the hotel, and they were calling me from downstairs at 2 in the morning saying, ‘Sir, can you please keep it down. People are trying to sleep.’”
Brolin praised Rian Johnson, noting that the director knew how to get the best performance out of him.
“The great thing about Rian Johnson, he’s a small guy, super smart, super good guy, I wanted to please him. He had such command over his set. He would give me a look like, ‘You’re not being good enough.’ And I would be like, ‘Fuck. I’ll be better. I promise you daddy.’ Talk about base. And it was just between he and I. He didn’t make a big show about it.”
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will be released on Netflix in 2025.
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