Podcast: SmartLess
Episode: Josh Brolin | SmartLess
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Twelfth Night
Buy on Amazon"I did this play, I did Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in high school! I didn't understand a word I was saying! And I... and until there was an audience!"
East of Eden
Buy on Amazon"And at the same time I did see Streetcar and I saw East of Eden and those two movies had a major impact! Anyway, somebody, Hillary Shore took me on as... even though she knew the whole resume was [___], and she took me on!"
Dune
Buy on Amazon"Johnny Betts from Private Eye, Taylor Rolator from 21 Jump Street, you might know him as Glenn from Finish Line, um, you might know him as Jack Passion from WKA Road, probably not, but you might know him more as Gurney HCK from Dune or Thanos from Avengers: Endgame or or Dan White for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for 2008's Milk."
Dune
Buy on Amazon"I don't want to rain on your parade, but just let me know if it's now or 40 minutes. I can talk about Dune, because I have 800,000 questions. You can... you can about Dune anytime you want!"
Dune
Buy on Amazon"You know, if you do Dune with a certain director, it's going to be a certain thing! Somebody who understands what takes to use, whatever! And then if you do Dune with Denny VNV, it's going to... you know, the... the foundation the... you know, the worst, it's going to be is still really good!"
Dune
Buy on Amazon"Okay, so wait, so AR is the sand real? Can I talk about Dune? Can I talk about..."
Dune
Buy on Amazon"But I mean, what he's accomplished in Dune is like, it's hard to get the tone and the feel and the actors and the script and the sets, and just everything works perfectly. It creates a world that we haven't seen. Yeah, it's very collaborative."
Dune
Buy on Amazon"So it became a very, very collaborative process. So that's what I get from Dune. Denny, my good, good friend now, but he's a guy who I would work on anything with because that kind of collaborative effort is the top."
Dune
Buy on Amazon"But things like Dune, as Sean pointed out, it's world-building. It's creating a world; it's creating a whole thing that's so hard to get right. Yeah, no kidding."