"Jonah Hex" star Josh Brolin dropped by "The Tonight Show" yesterday, and spilled some details about the upcoming big-screen debut of DC's ex-confederate bounty hunter — including some thoughts on what John Malkovich brings to the lead villain role, and (we're not making this up) what it's like to make out with Megan Fox.
According to Brolin, Malkovich wasn't the studio's first choice to play Quentin Turnbull, the vicious plantation owner who faces off against Jonah Hex in the film. In fact, Brolin said he was the one who convinced the studio to bring in the "Burn After Reading" actor.
"This was another angry role that I thought John [Malkovich] could pull off," said Brolin. "The studio had brought up a Gary Oldman or somebody else."
"I said the thing about Gary Oldman or other actors like that is when they get angry ... they're usually pretty straightforward with their anger, you can feel the rage coming and then they finally look at you — and when it's time to do it they just look at you and just let the spit fly," explained Brolin. "With John, you can feel the anger start to surface and then John may look for something, like maybe there's a poodle there. And John will pick up a poodle and start to pet the poodle. He won't be looking at you and he may start to recite a poem by [W.H.] Auden or something."
"And to me that's far scarier than somebody actually screaming in your face," he said.
Brolin also described a fight scene in which he ended up breaking Malkovich's thumb. According to the "No Country For Old Men" star, he learned of the injury when Malkovich quietly asked him to pull his thumb back into place after the scene was finished.
Show host Conan O'Brien also got Brolin to open up about another important element of the film: his chemistry with "Jennifer's Body" actress Megan Fox.
"Yes, I made out with Megan Fox, which was nice," laughed Brolin. "The thing is, I had a prosthetic on my face and it was very tough for me because of the way Jonah Hex is and the way the character is, there's kind of a rope-idermis halfway through my mouth and half of my face is burned, so it's very tough to figure out and find a way to get your tongue through."
Well, there you have it, folks: the important "Jonah Hex" questions, answered.
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