Josh Brolinis not only an actor with many credits to his name, but he is also one of those rare actors to have played two different prominent roles in Marvel movies. He played Cable inDeadpool 2in between his stints are theMad Titan Thanos in the MCU, and he has been reprising his role of theAvengers' antagonist in the latest episode ofMarvel’s What If…?series. In the episode, which also featured the last performance of Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, saw the Black Panther becoming Star-Lord and gave Thanos a whole new role in theMarvelworld. Considering his hellbent mission to remove half of humanity from existence in the main Marvel timeline, hisWhat If…?appearance was something a little more fun, and it let to Brolin speaking to ACE Universe about what actually pulled him into the role in the first place.
“When I said yes to, to Thanos, you know, they’d given me a big Bible and really kind of talked me out but it wasn’t for you know a massive, massive part in two final films of a 10-year span. It was meant more as a cameo. So it was never the size of the role that that was like oh I want to do that because it’s going to push me further up into that fame or stardom or whatever. It was like what’s the role? The role, it’s not one of the Avengers, it’s the nemesis to all the Avengers,” Brolin said.
It is not the first time Josh Brolin has opened up about what led him to the role, having previously said, “I turned down quite a bit of those things and again people were like ‘money!’ When I said yes to Avengers it was a small thing. It was basically a cameo, so there was not a lot of money involved, So that wasn’t the reason. But when they game to me they gave me a big bible. I loved that it was all [of them]. If it had been one of the Avengers – and I don’t mean this, I probably shouldn’t say this but I’m just gonna say it – I probably wouldn’t have done it. But the fact that it was all the Avengers against this one guy. I liked that aspect of it.”
As well as his appearance inWhat If…?, Brolin will be seen alongside one of his manyAvengersadversaries when he appears in the new version of Dune, which also starsGuardians of The Galaxyactor Dave Bautista in its all star cast, which also includesSpider-Manactress Zendaya and Oscar Isaac who will soon be seen in Disney+ seriesMoon Knight. With so many actors having appeared in theMCUto date, it is hard for any actor to do a non-Marvel movie without bumping into someone they have previously worked with on oneMCUproject or another, and with so many more actors joining in the next year the industry is fast becoming one big Marvel family.
What If…?is currently releasing new episodes each week on Disney+, whileDuneis currently slated for release on October 22 in theaters and on HBO Max. Check out the full interview atACE Universe.
