The same way you’re looking at the dogs and hoping to train them. You play the card that you were dealt, not the one you wish you were dealt.
Every time I go to take them and teach them and show them how to not do things we don’t want them to do and how to do cute things, everybody says, “Don’t treat the dog like that leave the dog alone!” I remind them that I was a dog trainer for five years, and they say it doesn’t cut any ice whatsoever. Yeah, and we have three little dogs running around the house that have no discipline whatsoever. You’ve been working steadily for 60 years, and I think for a lot of people it would be time to put your feet up in a hammock. Let me work on it for 30 days and then read it and I bet you’ll finance it,” and that’s kind of happening now. I’m a person that says, “I know how to fix this. I’m not good at writing anything original, but I’m good at scripts that were interesting but turned down by everybody. But, in the meantime, I have been working on four scripts that other people wrote. I’m going to have to reassess it and refinance it.
I’m just kind of sad that it’s gone away. I’ve directed myself a lot, but somehow this was very important to me. There was something very scary about me kind of doing that.
There are people over 55 who like to screw, you know? So the wife is living this life she never had at home, all of a sudden, and he’s watching television with boxes full of shit everywhere in the old house they lived in. I was going to play an old divorced guy, and the house was a mess, and the wife was living in a senior … Some of these new senior developments are very hip.
This picture I was going to direct and shoot. Everything is kind of a crap shoot in a way, as far as your fear element: “Am I doing the right thing?” and “What am I really driven to do? What do I want to do?” James Brolin: I’m not really interested in being in front of camera so much unless there’s something really interesting about it, where I can show people a side of me, or interpret it. InsideHook: What have you been doing with things on hold? In a career spanning nearly 60 years, Brolin can be described in many ways: TV star, father of an Oscar-nominated actor, ace character actor, husband of one of the most recognizable women in the world, the American who almost played James Bond (“That would have been real fun”), haunted house owner and Pee Wee Herman’s onscreen representation.ĭue to the coronavirus, Brolin’s resume padding has slowed, which allowed the house-bound, Emmy-winning actor to describe the joys of getting older, surviving the tabloids and why a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich on Dave’s Organic Bread is a key to happiness. We could just lead this by saying that being married to Barbra Streisand for more than 20 years is more than enough to qualify him as a guy you should listen to, but there’s so much more.
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