Josh Brolin Reveals He Almost Quit Ridley Scott’s New Movie After One Day of Shooting

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• Josh Brolin admitted he “got really scared” early on while filming new movie The Dog Stars with Ridley Scott

• The director was “not really rehearsing,” Brolin recalled, adding that he called his agent and said, “I’ve got to get the f— out of here”

• Seeing footage of the post-apocalyptic film in progress helped the actor “embrace” Scott’s “stratospherically creative and stratospherically dangerous” style

Josh Brolin is facing his fears.

Early into filming director Ridley Scott‘s new movie The Dog Stars (in theaters Aug. 28), the actor “got really scared” at the lack of rehearsal, he told Empire in a new feature published Tuesday, June 30.

“Ridley was talking a lot of stories and not really rehearsing,” recalled Brolin, 58, “and it bugged me out, and I got really scared. I went back, called my agent and said, ‘I want out. Something’s really wrong, and I’ve got to get the f— out of here.’ ”

The Oscar nominee says two factors prevented him from outright quitting his role as ex-Marine Bangley in the post-apocalyptic drama starring Jacob Elordi. Brolin’s agent, “a close friend,” advised him to rest for a day, he said. “I was like, ‘No, man, I know what the f— you’re doing.’ ”

Brolin also recalled how his perspective shifted after speaking with Scott, 88. “[Ridley] goes, ‘Come here,’ and he brought me into his trailer, and played the scene we had just finished,” said Brolin. “It was a really good, very dynamic scene between me and Jacob, and he goes, ‘Okay?’ I go, ‘Okay,’ and then I started to feed off that.”

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Despite previously working with Scott in 2007’s American Gangster, Brolin was thrown by the British director’s brisk, multi-camera style. “It took about a day or two for me to really embrace that, and then I got super into it because it was stratospherically creative and stratospherically dangerous,” he said.

The Weapons actor had “been asking” for such challenging projects, he added, but ended up “fighting it” at first. Ultimately, “it became one of the more creative, satisfying projects that I’ve ever been involved with,” he said.

The Dog Stars, adapted by Mark L. Smith from Peter Heller’s 2012 novel of the same name, also stars Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong and Allison Janney. It centers on Elordi’s civilian pilot Hig living “in a brutal post-apocalyptic world,” per an official synopsis, “until a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exists.”

Among Brolin’s other upcoming projects are Whalefall (in theaters Oct. 16) and the reprisal of his role of Gurney Halleck in Dune: Part Three (in theaters Dec. 18).

The Dog Stars is in theaters Aug. 28.

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