Josh Brolin Is the New Tommy Lee Jones
This entry was posted on 6/11/2008 11:40 PM and is filed under Musings.
It seems unlikely if not unfathomable given the first leg or two of his filmography, but it occurred to me a while back that
Josh Brolin may be the new
Tommy Lee Jones, and not merely because the duo costarred together in
No Country for Old Men, and he's set to portray
George Bush in Oliver Stone's
W. No, it's more that
Brolin has clearly become the go-to guy for grizzled Texans and southwesterners in general, a career track that offers up its own assurances of longevity and profitability. In addition to the above-mentioned films, Brolin also worked this angle — quite well, it must be stated — in Robert Rodriguez's
Planet Terror segment of
Grindhouse. Next up on the occupational agenda will be proving that he can
pivot from playing salty hard-asses to lampooning his reputation of the same, something Jones did with the
Men in Black flicks and (hard swallow, here)
Man of the House. Plus Brolin has
Diane Lane, too. So that's pretty sweet.
