Joshua James Brolin is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as The Goonies, Mimic, Hollow Man, Grindhouse, No Country for Old Men, American Gangster, W and Deadpool 2. Brolin played Marvel Comics supervillain Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Joshua James Brolin is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as The Goonies, Mimic, Hollow Man, Grindhouse, No Country for Old Men, American Gangster, W. and Deadpool 2. Brolin played Marvel Comics supervillain Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was considered for the role of Tom Hanson in the series 21 Jump Street; he and Johnny Depp were the finalists. He is the son of Jane Cameron, a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor JamesBrolin. He received critical acclaim for his performance in his Oscar nomination for his role in Milk, in which he portrayed San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk. He said in a 2014 interview that during his teenage years, he was a member of a surfing friendship group who called themselves the \”Cito Rats\”. He admitted to stealing cars to pay for his drug use, which included heroin, a drug that he explained he did not like, which is a good thing because he has had 19 friends who died.
He also said that he turned away from film acting for years after the premiere of his second film, Thrashin’, where he witnessed what he called ‘horrendous’ acting on his part. He appeared in stage roles in Rochester, New York, often alongside mentor and friend Anthony Zerbe. He played Wild Bill Hickok in the ABC western TV series The Young Riders, which lasted three seasons. In 2008, Brolin also starred in another Oliver Stone film, W, a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. Bush. He made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy Awards ceremony to demonstrate solidarity with the same-sex marriage movement. He and Sean Penn co-starred in the film Milk, which decided to dispel any nerves the actors had about playing gay men by the horns by playing the bull by the bull. At the first cast dinner, he included castmates James Hirsch, Emile Franco, James Franco, and Emile Hirsch.
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