The President Gets Stoned
Ben Barna
May 08, 2008
That crazy sumbitch Oliver Stone is really going through with it, isn’t it? Stone’s George W. Bush biopic W is officially underway and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. Well, Entertainment Weekly’s got ‘em, along with an in-depth article on the controversy swirling around the first ever movie about a sitting president. Have a look at Josh Brolin, (nearly unrecognizable is he) and have a look at Elizabeth Banks, the handsomest faux first couple we ever did see.
In the piece, Brolin discusses his reasons for taking the role, and you’d be surprised to learn it’s because of his similarities to the commander-in-chief. After most actors around town turned down the role, Stone—salesman that he is—pitched Brolin on their similarities. “We both have well-known fathers. We both grew up in the country. We both have strong mothers,” says Brolin. Don’t those reasons seem a little arbitrary? How about this (and I hate to be so cynical), but “I’ll get more career attention than ever before, I’ll end up on the cover of Entertainment Weekly before shooting a single scene, and then BlackBookmag.com will write about it, with minimal style and wit.”
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