# Josh Brolin, we have Marvel movie and we need a villain, you available? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057 "2018-04-24T19:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/21 "2018-04-25T10:42:45Z")
Starring in a Coen Brothers film can do wonders for your career, especially the one that won all the Oscars. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/22 "2018-04-25T12:42:42Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Ugh, don’t get me started on the casting community’s fetish for non-American’s playing Americans. I don’t think it’s a fetish, there just aren’t that many male American actors. Captain America was between Evans and Jim from the office. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/23 "2018-04-25T12:52:51Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I don’t think it’s a fetish, there just aren’t that many male American actors. ???:eek::eek::eek: [Rant]Speaking as someone who came out of US university theatre training, and professional acting academy, there are literally tens of thousands male American actors. What is unfortunate is that the Hollywood casting industry does not fill the pipeline with “Actors”, instead they hire young males who look good, regardless of their training/skill/etc. Then when they need someone who can actually act, they get all dewey eyed over Brits and Australians, often overlooking home grown talent.[/Rant] ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/24 "2018-04-25T14:32:44Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > ???:eek::eek::eek: > > [Rant]Speaking as someone who came out of US university theatre training, and professional acting academy, there are literally tens of thousands male American actors. What is unfortunate is that the Hollywood casting industry does not fill the pipeline with “Actors”, instead they hire young males who look good, regardless of their training/skill/etc. Then when they need someone who can actually act, they get all dewey eyed over Brits and Australians, often overlooking home grown talent.[/Rant] Meant famous actors. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/25 "2018-04-25T15:24:10Z")
But actors aren’t in movies because they’re famous; they’re famous because they’re in movies. The Three Chrises are famous now, but they weren’t before Marvel cast them. In fact, most movies that get recognized after-the-fact as good (as opposed to hype before release) end up having a few unknowns in prominent roles. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/26 "2018-04-25T15:38:01Z")
So, people (mostly legitimately (it is called ‘acting’ for a reason)) get up in arms over casting straights for gays, hearing for deaf, various non-ethnic for ethnic - is it time to start insisting on American’s playing American’s? Of course, they’ll have to recast half of Walking Dead . . . ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/27 "2018-04-25T15:39:43Z")
I made that comment to my husband a month ago while watching some YouTube trailers. I watched the new (at the time) _Infinity War_ trailer, then my next suggested video was the latest _Deadpool_ trailer… Normally, I would laugh it off and think nothing of it, but with how genre savvy DP is, and how often he breaks the fourth wall, makes actor allusions, and so on, I can’t help but wonder what kind of antics are in store for this movie because of the [celebrity paradox](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CelebrityParadox). Will Cable wear a weird golden glove? A purple shirt? Run through a Holi festival and get covered in purple powder? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/28 "2018-04-25T17:58:55Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > So, people (mostly legitimately (it is called ‘acting’ for a reason)) get up in arms over casting straights for gays, hearing for deaf, various non-ethnic for ethnic - is it time to start insisting on American’s playing American’s? Of course, they’ll have to recast half of Walking Dead . . . Speaking for all of the out of work US born actors, sounds good to me! BUILD THAT WALL! ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057/29 "2018-04-26T06:22:38Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Goonies](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/flx-editorial-wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Josh-Brolin-Goonies.jpg)! Wasn’t he also Hickock in Young Riders? –G? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/josh-brolin-we-have-marvel-movie-and-we-need-a-villain-you-available/813057.md?page=1)