00:00I'm very happy to have you here.
00:02It's very nice to have you in New York.
00:03You and I have an opposite situation.
00:05I live in New York. My brother lives in L.A.
00:07You live in L.A. Your brother lives in New York.
00:08Do you get a chance to hang out with him?
00:10I get a chance every time I come to New York.
00:12This time around, I miss him, because he's traveling.
00:15So this time around, I miss him.
00:16Does he take it personally that you just chose to come
00:18when he was on the road?
00:20I don't know about that, but it's always nice to see him.
00:23Always, when I come to New York, it's like,
00:26we always go out.
00:27Does he just sort of know how to treat you
00:29to the best of the city when you're here?
00:31He's a connoisseur of pizza restaurants.
00:34Oh, that's good.
00:35That's the right kind of connoisseur to be around.
00:37Yeah, you know, and a good steak, too.
00:40Okay. Are you picky with pizza?
00:41Because people always ask me what my favorite pizza is,
00:44and I have to say, all pizza.
00:46No, there's really good pizza, and then there's all pizza.
00:51Yeah, I think that's fair. Yeah.
00:53There's no, like, bad. I mean, there's some bad pizza.
00:58I'm so excited that there is a sequel to Sicario,
01:02which was a movie from a couple years ago
01:03that I absolutely loved.
01:05Were you surprised that this came back around
01:07to tell more of this story?
01:09Yeah, a little bit.
01:11You know, the first movie was, I thought, a good movie.
01:19And so it had a great group of filmmakers working on it.
01:23So when they decided to do this one,
01:26I was a little skeptical because we were going to have
01:29a new director, a new director of photography.
01:32So, but the story that the writer wrote, Taylor Sheridan,
01:38was very original and unpredictable.
01:41And it had a lot of those, like, oh, moments
01:44that I felt when I read it, I felt like,
01:48hey, you know what? Let's tackle it.
01:49That's very exciting.
01:50And you must have felt the character, Yurk,
01:53the character you played was so wonderful in the first film.
01:56Do you feel like it changed to a place to be interesting
01:59to take it on again?
01:59Yeah, I think he evolves quite a bit in this story,
02:05in the new Sicario Day of the Soldado.
02:07He kind of like, I like to say he, you know,
02:09in the first one, we meet him, and he's like a hitman,
02:11a heartless, one-track mind kind of guy bent on revenge.
02:16And in this one, I think that it's through his journey,
02:21I think we find out that he's rehabilitated to an extent.
02:26He's not innocent, but he's rehabilitated
02:29through this relationship that he has with this young girl
02:32called Isabella, played by Isabella Moner, yeah.
02:35That's really exciting. I can't wait to see it.
02:36Like I said, I love the first one.
02:38I also want to ask, in recent years,
02:41Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, Star Wars,
02:45are those exciting movies to be a part of?
02:48Were those the kind of movies that, if you were a kid,
02:50you would have enjoyed?
02:50Yeah.
02:51Yeah, that's the way I feel.
02:53Big time.
02:54It's like, it's like going back to the future.
02:57Yeah.
02:59And I'm very lucky that Star Wars called, you know,
03:03the director, Rian Johnson of The Last Jedi.
03:06He called me up, and I said, yeah, no problem.
03:08And so did James Gunn, when he called me up
03:11to play the collector in Guardians of the Galaxy.
03:14So that's a, you know, that's an actor's dream.
03:17Yeah.
03:18Just the call. Any call.
03:20Any call. Any call.
03:22I mean, as an actor, if your phone rings
03:24and it's not like the bill collector,
03:25you're like, this is a good day.
03:27Good day, for sure.
03:28So I know on probably all these projects,
03:31scripts are like tightly guarded secrets.
03:34And for Star Wars, is it true that they had to bring
03:37a tablet to your house and someone had to wait outside
03:40while you read it?
03:41Yeah, they bring, like, an iPad with the code
03:46and the whole bit, and the script is right there.
03:49And it was really, I'm a slow reader, you know?
03:51Uh-huh.
03:53Yeah, it's, you know, usually it can take me
03:57eight, ten hours to really read a script.
04:00I mean, I can read it.
04:00I feel like you take some breaks.
04:02Yeah, of course, I do. I daydream quite a bit.
04:04Uh-huh.
04:08But, you know, a Star Wars script, it's got a lot of weird names
04:12and, like, a new language.
04:15So it took a long time.
04:16So that guy, that poor guy, was waiting for,
04:19I'd say, about eight hours, ten hours, you know?
04:22Did you give him a chair or anything?
04:24Was he sitting in a car? What was he doing?
04:25Uh, no, I didn't.
04:28I kind of forgot that he was there.
04:30Yeah, no, that's, they say that's one of the side effects
04:33of daydreaming.
04:34You forget where you are or who you are.
04:37You have a seven-year-old daughter.
04:40Does she, are these movies, do they appeal to her,
04:43your movies, or what are the movies she's into?
04:44Well, she really loves, you know, the Star Wars.
04:50She likes the Star Wars movie that I've done.
04:52I mean, of course, she's not going to be able to see
04:54Sicario Day of the Soldado.
04:55Right, yeah.
04:56Well, not until she saw the first Sicario,
04:58or else it won't make sense.
05:01Totally.
05:02But, uh, you know what movie she really loves?
05:06And, uh, it's, uh, she's a big fan of Josh Brolin
05:10in, uh, The Goonies.
05:12Oh, Goonies. Sure.
05:13Yeah.
05:14Yeah.
05:15Yeah. It's really funny, because, uh...
05:19So has she met Josh?
05:20She hasn't.
05:21Okay, gotcha.
05:22But she will.
05:23But she might be surprised when she sees him.
05:25But I don't think he's changed that much.
05:27Yeah, we actually, we have side-by-sides
05:29of a modern-day, uh, Brolin and Goonies Brolin.
05:34Yeah, the same-sized cull.
05:35Yeah.
05:36He does have a big head, right?
05:38He does have a big head, yeah.
05:38You've worked with him up close and personal.
05:41I've worked with him on five projects.
05:42Five movies?
05:44Two Sicarios? What else?
05:46Uh, The Avengers.
05:48Right, of course.
05:48Inherent Vice.
05:50Um, Paul Thomas Anderson with Joaquin Phoenix.
05:55And, uh, what else did I do?
05:56I did a TV show early on in my career.
05:59Um, when I was 20, probably.
06:01And he was the lead.
06:02It was called Private Eye.
06:04Okay.
06:04A guest star at a TV show.
06:05Gotcha.
06:06That's where I met him.
06:07Oh, that's fantastic.
06:07And when you worked together, because I guess then it was
06:09probably at least a decade before you worked together again,
06:11did he remember you from Private Eye?
06:13I hope he did.
06:15I never asked, but I think he did, I think he did, yeah.
06:24for a while.
06:27No part of that
06:28So that's,
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