If the guy who made &34;The Social Network&34; paid you that kind of compliment, you'd repeat it too. Josh Brolin says David Fincher loved his Fbomb in Weapons:

If the guy who made "The Social Network" paid you that kind of compliment, you'd repeat it too.

Josh Brolin says David Fincher loved his F-bomb in Weapons: 'Greatest line in R-rated history'

If the guy who made "The Social Network" paid you that kind of compliment, you'd repeat it too.

By Jordan Hoffman

Published on August 23, 2025 09:00AM EDT

Leave a Comment

Josh Brolin in 'Weapons'. Credit:

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

*No Country for Old Men *and *Dune *star Josh Brolin was the first guest on a new podcast this week called *On Film... With Kevin McCarthy*. Brolin and his sunny interviewer did a deep dive on the Oscar-nominated actor's career, going all the way back to watching his father James Brolin attack the walls of a bleeding house on the set of the horror classic *The Amityville Horror*.

The timing couldn't be better as the younger Brolin is currently top of the box office with *Weapons*, Zach Cregger's gripping new horror (and comedy) film.

Julia Garner and Josh Brolin team up to solve the riddle at the heart of 'Weapons'.

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.

The picture, which costars Julia Garner, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, and Alden Ehrenreich boasts a 94% positive on Rotten Tomatoes and an A- from Cinemascore, but it's also got some pretty notable film veterans in its corner. Among them: David Fincher.

Amy Madigan landed 'Weapons' role on first meeting: 'You can have it!'

Josh Brolin says he's a 'not so hot' priest in 'Knives Out 3'

Brolin shared that the director of *Seven*, *Zodiac*, *The Social Network*, and *The Killer *is good chums with Cregger — who is still relatively new to feature film directing despite being in the entertainment biz for quite some time. (For those who are unaware, you can, and absolutely should, watch 15-year-old sketch comedy clips of Cregger and his old troupe The Whitest Kids U'Know to see some of the greatest examples of the form.) The three-time Oscar nominee Fincher agreed to look at *Weapons *before it had been locked to offer some advice.

According to Brolin, Fincher had "very, very few things to say. I think it was, 'You could cut out two frames here, two frames there.'" But he did have a comment about the big moment when Brolin's character awakens from a terrifying and perplexing dream and barks out the line "what the f---?!?!"

"'It's the greatest line in R-rated history,'" is apparently Fincher's assessment. "He actually said that," Brolin reported.

Film director David Fincher is a big fan of Josh Brolin in 'Weapons'.

Jon Kopaloff/Getty

The actor, who has worked with Denis Villeneuve, the Coen Brothers, Oliver Stone, Paul Verhoeven, George Clooney, Spike Lee, Woody Allen, and several other heavy hitters, had nothing but praise for Cregger and *Weapons*.

"[Since Zach] comes from comedy, he understands that in order to really scare the s--- out of people on a visceral level, you have to give them pause. You have to redirect them," Brolin said. "There's no better way to do that than humor."

Josh Brolin and Zach Cregger on the set of 'Weapons'.

Quantrell Colbert/Warner Bros.

He continued, "I've rewatched [Cregger's earlier film] *Barbarian* that I was almost confused by when I saw [it] like, 'Is this funny? Is this bad? Is this scary? Because I'm scared and I'm laughing, but am I supposed to?'"

Most who have seen *Weapons *agree that this "I'm not sure if I should laugh" element is what sets the movie apart.

***Sign up for **'s free daily newsletter* *to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.***

You can check out Brolin's full chat below.**

Original Article on Source

Source: "AOL Movies"

Read More

---

Source: VOGUE MAG

Full Article on Source: VOGUE MAG

#LALifestyle #USCelebrities