Steven Spielberg was almost a “cock” under “goonies”

Josh Brolin Looking back on the council Steven Spielberg gave him at the age of 16.

Brolin, who had a breakout role in “Goonies“As Spielberg created the story for, recalled during Siriusxm’s “Literally! With Rob Lowe” Podcast How Spielberg advised him to “just act” instead of thinking about the part.

“I think” goonies “was pretty an accident,” Brolin said about being cast in film. “I went in there, they pulled the Brolin thing:” Are you (James) Brolin’s children, yes, ok, you want to be an actor, huh? “So instead of the nepotistic thing they looked at me and were like,” Oh yes? So act. ‘And I would be like’ I won’t help you. ‘ So I studied, I got Stanislavski books, Grotowski, ‘The Poor Theater,’ and Antonin Artaud, ‘The Theater of Cruelty.’ I stayed in a bookstore 90 percent of the time. Just read, read, read. Then I met (director) Dick Donner and Steven Spielberg, and I just looked right for that matter. ”

Brolin continued, “You are watching (co -star) Sean Astin, you are watching what kind of movie it is … I looked like a little bad boy, but a kind of jock, and I was in good shape, so they were like , “It’s the guy.” I went back six times, just so they could make sure, and then I did. ”

During production, however, Brolin realized that his “bad boy” look was more important about his feedback on the script or ideas for extra scenes.

“I was on the set and read all this with these little wooden rules. I came to Steven sometime, we were in one of the tunnels, and I said, “Hi, Steven, can I talk to you for a second?” He was like, “yes, safe,” Brolin said, leaving that he was a “really stupid” teenager already because he had “missed a lot of school.”

Brolin added, “So I said (to Steven), ‘Hello, don’t you think the tunnels kind of represent my mother’s life? And what happens if we films me up the tunnel, but I really try to cut the emotional umbilical cord of my mother, and I could get tears coming down my face? ‘I went into the whole thing, and I was all excited because he nodded his head and then I waited. And then he looked at me and he said, ‘Why don’t you just act? Just say the words on the page, you will have a good time. ‘And I could have been like, ‘Dick!’ But I didn’t, I was, ‘oh, totally. I have it. “”

Brolin’s “Goonies” co -star Ke Huy Quan said earlier there was “Many scripts” for a possible “goonies” sequenceBut “there was not a script that felt it could live up to what the original was.” KE also pointed to the fact that the original director Richard Donner departed 2021.

“Unfortunately, we lost the captain of our ship Dick Donner,” said Ke, “and I really don’t know if it will be a” goonies 2 “, but I would really love to visit the character of the data if there is a possibility.”