Josh Brolin Biography

 

He and Johnny Depp, who were the two finalists for the part of Tom Hanson in the television series 21 Jump Street, grew close and remained friends. Depp won the job in the end.  In the first season of the program, Brolin appeared as a guest star. In his filmography, Brolin has played a number of villainous roles in movies from the late 2000s and early 2010s, such as Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, American Gangster, and Planet Terror.  In the Academy Award-winning Coen brother’s movie No Country for Old Men, he also had the lead part. For his part as city supervisor Dan White, who killed San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone in Gus Van Sant’s movie Milk, Brolin received an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actor.

He gained attention when he showed support for the same-sex marriage campaign by wearing a White Knot at the Academy Awards ceremony.  Sean Penn, who played Milk, chose to “take the bull by the horns” in order to allay the actors’ fears of playing gay males, according to Brolin. James Franco, Emile Hirsch, and Diego Luna were part of the first cast meal where Penn “walked right up, grabbed me, and placed a tremendous one right on my lips,” according to Brolin.

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