But he would come in and you could tell, actually somebody saw it.
#James brolin movie#
Couldn’t get a movie so he became the head of the NRA, that’s the way I look at it. He would come in, in a Corvette with the top down in the morning. The producer said, “OK, we got Charlton Heston as the pilot and we need the guy who’s the least likely to hijack an airplane.” So I became the hijacker in that movie and worked with Heston and quite a lot of interesting character actors who’d been around. I also worked with Charlton Heston on a movie called Skyjack, where I hijacked an airplane. “But he’s the director.” Yeah, but you know he’s just so like that, you know? So anyway, later on when I worked with him in Westworld and he did, I don’t know if you remember him as the robot that killed everything, the gunslinger … I thought he was really interesting. Everybody going, “We don’t have a use for that, you know we just move the camera in closer.” He said, “I’ll take it, I can follow the players, follow the ball.” And he’s the first guy ever to commercially use a zoom lens in entertainment.Īnd then when The King and I was developed for the stage in New York, they said there’s only one guy that can play it and it’s Yul Brynner.
And he’s the first guy, when some guy’s going around bases, he’s the first using a zoom lens for a camera. He directed the ball games at Ebbets Field, the baseball games. Then he goes to New York and he becomes a director. But he worked his ass off and became this guy, right? Well, the history of that is he was in a Romanian circus high-wire act, and he fell and they said he’d never walk again. You know Yul Brynner with all his great posture and everything is like perfect. You know Yul Brynner has an interesting history. There was this … in Westworld, there was Yul Brynner. Watson: So, besides Brando, who else was great?īrolin: You know, it’s funny. But then it was the fantasy of island girls, like you never saw before. Time’s a … now it’s drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, just like everywhere else. Had the greatest time in Tahiti, in the late ’60s. So the movie started with the prologue of the son telling the story of what happened to dad. And I was actually signed at 19 years old, before I even was at Fox, to play his son in the prologue and epilogue of Mutiny on the Bounty. But, basically, when he decided he was going to do his job, he was the best ever. James Brolin: The best? I saw Brando all over the place. WHEN BIG DOGS ROAMEDĬarlos Watson: Who was the best actor you’ve ever worked with or seen? Using whatever definition of “best” you want to use, who is the best?
#James brolin full#
The following are some of the best cuts from the full conversation, which you can find on the show’s podcast feed. So we were thrilled when he stopped by The Carlos Watson Show. James Brolin, Hollywood’s quintessential handsome guy lead, has had a career many/most in the film business would kill for, first as an actor, now primarily as a director (and side note: as the father of Thanos - or at least the young cat, Josh Brolin, who played him).
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