Josh Brolin Reveals the Major Reason He Was Convinced to Play Thanos

Josh Brolin as Thanos is one of the most memorable big bad of the MCU. It remains one of the most memorable sequences in superhero cinematic history when Thanos eventually collects all six Infinity Stones, snaps his fingers, and wipes out half the population in Avengers: Infinity War. Despite meeting his demise in Avengers: Endgame, his convincing portrayal of the villain became noteworthy to the audience; however, the actor recently revealed to Variety that he initially turned down the part until he was offered a book on why he should play the supervillain.

“I was doing ‘Everest’ in London and they dropped off the huge bible of Thanos and what he meant in the Marvel Universe and his trajectory and his relationship with Lady Death and all this stuff. And I thought it was really interesting, but I had turned down a few really big films of those types of films, not Marvel, but other people. And I just didn't have a real interest in doing it. I just felt like that was going down a road that I just wasn't particularly interested in. So this came and I was like, this is interesting and it was the bible that did it. I was reading through volumes and volumes of information and I thought, this is really cool and I love how in-depth this has gone.” Brolin narrated,

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Marvel’s Phase 5 has successfully introduced the antagonist that has the power to amount to Thanos’ badness via Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror. However, now that the actor is facing multiple allegations, it’s uncertain where his antagonist will go from here, which makes Brolin's baddie more distinguishable. Thanos may be gone, but Brolin's future in the MCU does not have to be, as he was allowed to reprise his role as another renowned Marvel character in Deadpool 2.

Brolin’s Cable made his debut alongside Ryan Reynolds' Wade Wilson, and the film’s ending suggested that they wanted to form a team that would include the cybernetic mutant. However, Disney's acquisition of Fox altered everything, but fans debated that Brolin could still possibly portray Nathaniel Summers, especially now that the X-Men will be incorporated into the MCU. So who knows? His next appearance in the franchise might be just around the corner.

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