{"id":460730,"date":"2025-09-29T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460730\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:25:12","slug":"the-one-scene-josh-brolin-never-forgot-its-never-left-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460730\/","title":{"rendered":"The one scene Josh Brolin never forgot: “It\u2019s never left me”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Josh<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Mon 29 September 2025 14:15, UK <\/p>\n

For a performer who nearly packed the whole acting gig in, Josh Brolin<\/a> managed to carve an impressive \u2018comeback\u2019.<\/p>\n

Remembered for his teen role in 1985\u2019s The Goonies, a dissatisfied appearance in Thrashin\u2019 two years later prompted a distance from the film industry altogether, Brolin finding plenty of minor TV work and warmly received stage productions. Following a string of low-key credits in half-remembered features across the 1990s and early 2000s, a key cast in 2007\u2019s No Country for Old Men would herald his return, before long balancing the likes of Thanos in the Avengers universe to Oliver Stone\u2019s character study of President George Bush in W.<\/p>\n

Always seeming like a cool guy in interviews and press junkets, a chance to hang out and talk movies would no doubt prove a scintillating and educational exchange, Brolin as much a cinephile as he is a Hollywood star. Thankfully, a recent feature in Criterion\u2019s Closet Picks series presented the next best thing: Brolin let loose among the prestigious library of DVDs and Blu-rays and highlighting the movies that stand tall in his estimation. Among selections including Traffic, Mikey and Nicky, and Lost Highway, Brolin plumps for two efforts from British director Alex Cox.<\/p>\n

Selecting 1984\u2019s Los Angeles punk sci-fi caper Repo Man<\/a> first, Brolin then devotes much of his appraisal of Cox\u2019s legacy by picking his follow-up, Sid & Nancy, from Criterion\u2019s hallowed shelves. Starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Cox\u2019s stylised biopic attempts to capture the torrid romance between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his troubled girlfriend Nancy Spungen, spiralling into a downward whirlwind of heroin abuse while living in New York\u2019s Hotel Chelsea.<\/p>\n

While the case of Spungen\u2019s death from a stab wound in her abdomen is inconclusive, the film depicts Vicious carrying out the attack during an opiate-fugged fight, leaving intentions ambiguous.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Roger Deakins\u2019 cinematography, having worked with each other on five pictures and confessing to becoming \u201cclose friends\u201d, Brolin recalled one key sequence from Sid & Nancy that had left an impression on him when first watching nearly 40 years ago as an 18-year-old: \u201cI remember there was a great sequence of the trash falling down in this alleyway, this slow-motion sequence, and it\u2019s never left me since the first time I saw it\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The scene in question is the alleyway shot of Vicious and Spungen kissing in an alleyway as Prayers for Rain\u2019s \u2018Taxi to Heaven\u2019 plays, their silhouettes embracing against the sharp light amid a surreal rain of garbage and debris, an evocative and illustrative vignette of the couple\u2019s self-destructive, gutter passions.<\/p>\n

While enjoying rave critical acclaim and entering a perennial life in punk cultdom, the Sex Pistols themselves had little positive to say, with frontman John Lydon<\/a> especially loathing its perceived glamorisation of drug addiction. But Brolin remains one of Sid & Nancy\u2019s biggest fans: \u201cIt\u2019s movies like this that made me want to be involved in the movie industry. And it\u2019s movies like this that remind me what we put ourselves through to be good actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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