Josh Brolin has revealed that he will playing the Woody Allen role in Allen’s upcoming London-set drama-comedy, “You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.”
“[I play] Woody Allen,” the actor tells the New York Times. “I play a failed writer who is . . . Woody Allen. It’s funny how he gets you to do that.”
How the actor will fare in the role remains to be seen but if the character really is an embodiment of Allen, it will be a side of Brolin we haven’t quite seen before. Co-starring are the likes of Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto and Lucy Punch.
“This is my second Woody Allen film — I worked four days in ‘Melinda and Melinda,'” Brolin continues, about how the collaboration came about. “Two years ago, Woody saw me in ‘W.,’ where I played George W. Bush, and he sent me an e-mail that I have framed, that read, basically, ‘I don’t know if you remember me from ‘Melinda and Melinda.’ I was the director.’ I don’t know to this day whether Woody was serious or not. So he sent me this script, and I said, ‘I’m not going to make the mistake everyone makes and try to play you.’ My first suggestion was that my character be in a wheelchair. Woody’s response to me was simply, ‘No.’ That was it.”
The film is due to hit theaters this fall with rumors of a Cannes premiere.