DEADPOOL 2 Star Josh Brolin Says Playing Cable Felt Like A "Business Transaction" Compared To Thanos

DEADPOOL 2 Star Josh Brolin Says Playing Cable Felt Like A "Business Transaction" Compared To Thanos

In a new interview, Josh Brolin has opened up about playing Cable in Deadpool 2, saying that it was "hard" and more akin to a "business transaction" than the time he spent as Thanos in the Avengers movies.

By JoshWilding - Oct 05, 2020 07:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Deadpool 2
Source: Team Deakins Podcast

After taking on the role of Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Josh Brolin later joined the X-Men Universe as Cable in Deadpool 2. The hope among fans is that the actor will be given the opportunity to reprise that role in the MCU, but whether he actually wants to is another matter altogether.

During a recent appearance on the Team Deakins podcast, Brolin opened up about how the process of starring in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame differed to Deadpool 2

Recalling the conversations he had with Joe and Anthony Russo about Thanos, Brolin said: "I mentioned [Marlon] Brando in 'Apocalypse Now,' this guy who is very elusive and insane but what he is saying makes sense and is poetical. I started seeing the parallel, which I liked for me. I loved being able to resort to a film like 'Apocalypse Now' when I was doing something like 'Avengers.'"

"'Deadpool' was hard," the actor continued. "Even though it was funny, it was harder. That was more of a business transaction, it was more, 'We need to make this like this,' whereas I didn't feel that way with 'Avengers.'" It doesn't sound like he had much freedom playing Cable, and that he was expected to just come in and deliver what Fox wanted with no creative input beyond that. 

That's to be expected on some projects, of course, but if you were wondering which comic book universe Brolin most enjoyed being part of, it's clear now that he'd take Thanos over Cable! 

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bobevanz
bobevanz - 10/5/2020, 7:05 AM
I'm not surprised
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 10/5/2020, 7:06 AM
Didn't feel the same level of passion in the Cable role as Thanos. I know he had an utter blast working with Ryan Reynolds though.

GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/5/2020, 7:07 AM


GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/5/2020, 7:09 AM
It was so obvious the Cable role was this sort of restrained thing. It was a boring take. He was amazing as Thanos. He made him feel tangible.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 10/5/2020, 7:12 AM
This is the part where people take sides but i'm just gonna say that to me he was amazing as both Thanos AND Cable. :3
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/5/2020, 7:58 AM
@Doomsday8888 - I’m glad you did. To me he didn’t stand out as Cable. Guess that automatically puts me on the Thanos side but I ain’t tryin to be biased, he simply stood WAYYY out.
patgreyc
patgreyc - 10/5/2020, 8:10 AM
@Doomsday8888 - I thought he did well with both, but Thanos edges him out, he had more depth to the character, mainly because he wasn't being used as a "straight man" like he was in Deadpool's comedy duo.
KingLeonidas
KingLeonidas - 10/5/2020, 7:12 AM
Can't be a business transaction when he did 6 months of bodybuilding to get hyper shredded for the role. You don't get in the best shape of your life unless you are artistically inspired.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 10/5/2020, 7:16 AM
@KingLeonidas -
Or a highly paid professional who takes his responsibilities seriously. Marvel has always been the more collaborative organization. The pick good actors who have vision and entrust the characters to them, not that the actors create the characters but they inhabit them in a more wholistic way.

Speaking of Snyder that is the difference and the real beef with bringing Whedon in. Snyder had entrusted the characters to the actors and Whedon had to say, "OK, that isn't working so we are going to do this."
Vision85
Vision85 - 10/5/2020, 7:12 AM
I liked both a lot. Thanos is next level for a cg character though.
UXASIS
UXASIS - 10/5/2020, 7:13 AM
I liked his Cable a lot more than Thanos.

If I should transfer a character from Deadpool to MCU, it would definitely be Cable (not unfunny Wade).
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 10/5/2020, 7:13 AM
Cable was the designated straight man in Deadpool 2. Not much more to it than that.
Kurne
Kurne - 10/5/2020, 7:16 AM
Strange to hear this from him, because I actually thought he seemed more lively/excited during the Deadpool 2 press rounds than the Infinity War tour.

He seems to really like Ryan Reynolds though, so maybe it was just fun for him to do.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 10/5/2020, 7:39 AM
@Kurne - Now that you mention it, I feel like I have a pretty clear memory of him once saying that it was way more fun to do Cable than it was to do Thanos. Weird
gordonh7
gordonh7 - 10/5/2020, 7:28 AM
Last year he said he thought Deadpool 2 was better. Next week he say another film was better. Probably Guardians of the Galaxy
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/5/2020, 7:50 AM
@gordonh7 - he bases it all on the hors devours
“But the best was definitely Age of Ultron, more like age of toston bowls! They cut thick round little slices of green plantain, fry em, smash em into a bowl shape, fry em again, and fill em with a garlic shrimp sofrito, best movie I ever worked on”
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 10/5/2020, 7:28 AM


I mostly got into Deadpool during the 'Cable and Deadpool' comics runs, and that was largely because Cable has always been one of my favorite X-Men characters. Part of what was such a letdown with DP2 was how they never managed to get the balance between them right beyond the baked in cliched elements of it. A big part of that was that Brolin's Cable was all 'angry cowboy' without the ageless wisdom Cable is supposed to exude. He can totally be on a revenge trip without it bordering on self parody. The DP movies needed to be smarter if they were going to pull that dynamic off well, and it all starts with rejecting the temptation to oversimplify Cable's personality

I don't really know if that was what Brolin would've even done with the role if he had more space to create tho. Besides his size, I always felt in the back of my head that he was a bit miscast just based on how obvious of a character type they'd be going with once they cast him
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 10/5/2020, 7:29 AM
OT:


lol, wtf??? That's Alan Moore!
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 10/5/2020, 7:35 AM
@Doomsday8888 - Lol wtf is my reaction to this as well
inkniron
inkniron - 10/5/2020, 7:38 AM
@Doomsday8888 - Color me intrigued, actually.
patgreyc
patgreyc - 10/5/2020, 8:13 AM
@Doomsday8888 - That is some serious B movie cheese vibes. Might be fun to watch with a few drinks in me.
inkniron
inkniron - 10/5/2020, 7:36 AM
Imagine, getting paid to do work feeling like a business transaction. Weird.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 10/5/2020, 7:39 AM
Fox vs Feige, I mean come on, you know which one you’ll like working for most. He wasn’t even human on avengers and still like it more!
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