Josh Brolin reflected on his past friendship with Donald Trump — when the POTUS was a real estate mogul based in New York City. He was described as a “genius” in marketing and received an Oscar nomination. Milk The actor said he knows a “different man” than the figure described by the GOP leader today.
In a detailed interview with Independent Promoting Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out MysteryBrolin said he did not base his character, the megalomaniac Monsignor Wicks, who leads a local church, on the President.
“I could make something up and say it was rooted in a kind of Trumpian greed,” he said.
Regarding his past acquaintanceship, he said, “I’m not afraid of Trump, because even though he says he’s going to be around forever, that’s not going to happen. And if it does, I’ll deal with that moment. But having been friends with Trump before he was president, I know a different person.”
He continued, discussing the Trump Hotel: “I’m sure there was a lot of corruption involved,” he commented, adding that he found “interesting” the idea of building a high-rise building “in the middle of a dirty city in the late ’70s… Now it has unlimited power, it’s unregulated.”
no country for old men The alumnus concluded: “There is no greater talent than him in marketing – he understands the weakness of the general population and caters to it. And that’s why I think a lot of people feel like he has a mascot. I think it’s less about Trump than it is about the general population and their need for recognition.”
Brolin has been candid about his friendship with Trump, whom he first met after shooting Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps in 2010. Speaking to journalist Graham Bensinger last year Weapon The star described that initial dinner — which also included Stone, co-star Shia LaBeouf and first lady-to-be Melania Trump — as leading to an “awkward fuck moment” in which the tycoon ignored her three separate requests to tour his upper Manhattan apartment.
In later years, during an appearance Late Show with Stephen Colbert In 2016, Brolin emphasized that he was “friends” with Trump, echoing current sentiments by portraying reality star-turned-politician Trump as “single-handedly turning around the economy of Manhattan.” I found it very attractive. I think he’s an interesting person.
And, in 2020, Brolin shared an Instagram message – in which he described himself as a “conservative Democrat” – speaking out against Trump before that year’s presidential election, saying, “I refuse to believe that Donald Trump is our original version of American masculinity.”
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