At a panel on progressive media (and specifically Chris Moore’s film based on Howard zinn’s “A Peoples History of the United States,” Josh Brolin commented in his arrest earlier this summer at a bar near the set of “W”, in which he plays the title role.
“I was arrested, and it was basically because I was standing up for someone, speaking out on something I thought was wrong. And what happens when you speak out? You go to jail.”
Brolin also discussed his new-found empathy for Neo-cons, born from his experience playing Bush. “this movie I just did, I was forced to study the other side. That was the greatest education I could have got, in humanity, what we [liberals] think of as anathema. It became a people thing. The obstacles are greed, fear–pretty basic stuff.”
More later when I get off the iPhone and to a computer.
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