James Cameron has offered Josh Brolin a role in the ‘Avatar’ sequel, but Brolin refused. He thinks this angered Cameron and speculated about the reasons for this. The actor also stated that his rejection of the project was “not because of the director”.
Brolin said in a new interview for In Depth With Graham Bensinger. “I heard he was angry,” he continue, “I understand it, because when you have something in your mind and you have a status and a power… you’re used to people feeling really grateful that you are offering it to them.”
He said, “I don’t know if that’s the case with him because I don’t know him well enough,” the actor aded, “But it was based on the [project]. It wasn’t based on him.”
Brolin also noted in his In Depth interview that when he eventually got swept up in a sprawling sci-fi series, it was a complete accident. “I wasn’t trying to get ‘Dune,'” he said. “I went in to pitch a different idea. And then I ended up — [producer] Mary Parent looked at me and was like, ‘What about Josh for ‘Dune?'”
The actor immediately accepted the offer because he’d had a positive experience working with ‘Dune’ director Denis Villeneuve on ‘Sicario’ in 2015. “I didn’t even need to read that, because it’s Denis, and I love Denis,” he said. “So I had a relationship with Denis, and it was like, ” He said that the role didn’t matter, that he could do anything with Villeneuve.
