By 2017, Josh Brolin was a bona fide A-lister. He reached the point where he doesn't call people, they call him. However, showbiz never fails to find an opportunity to humble its performers, proving that fame is more temporary than WWE's 24/7 champion. Brolin experienced this firsthand when he was cut from George Clooney's "Suburbicon": a film co-written by the Coen brothers, who directed him in "No Country for Old Men."
Clooney explained the decision to Entertainment Weekly, discussing how it pained him to cut the scenes where Brolin portrayed a baseball coach but it had to be done. "After we did our first screening, the one thing that became really clear to me was that [the scenes] let the air out of the balloon, in terms of the tension in the film," he said. "I had to write him this awful note where I just said, 'You're not going to believe it, but these scenes really don't work anymore.'" Clooney added that Brolin was disappointed and wondered if he'd let the team down with his performance, but the director sent him the scenes to show that they were hilarious but didn't work in the overall context of the film.
