{"id":17115,"date":"2022-06-17T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1664901"},"modified":"2022-06-17T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:10:08","slug":"zurg-vs-thanos-josh-and-james-brolin-argue-over-whos-the-best-villain","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/zurg-vs-thanos-josh-and-james-brolin-argue-over-whos-the-best-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurg vs Thanos: Josh and James Brolin argue over who\u2019s the best villain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 17 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Josh Brolin played one of the most formidable movie villains of the last few decades when he starred as Thanos in the MCU \u2013 and now his dad James is starring as an antagonist himself in the new Pixar film Lightyear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Brolin Sr stars as Emperor Zurg \u2013 who Toy Story fans will already be familiar with as Buzz Lightyear\u2019s sworn enemy \u2013 and in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the veteran actor revealed that his son has already been winding him up about who makes the better villain.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, that\u2019s already come up in the public eye now,\u201d he revealed when asked if he imagined there\u2019d be arguments about the matter. \u201cYou know, Josh is a real\u2026 what would you call it, an Instagram guy. You\u2019ve seen his writing on the net and everything and he\u2019s a wonderful writer. He has a great sense of humour.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I have a feeling this is going to parlay into something \u2013 because I\u2019m not good at leaving all these messages and pictures yet, although my appetite is piqued now, because maybe this is gonna be like a bar fight!\u201d<\/p>

Interestingly, Brolin had no idea which character he was going to be playing when he was initially cast in the film \u2013 claiming he was brought into Pixar\u2019s studios having only been sent some cryptic excerpts from the script.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what any characters were, all I knew is I had a job,\u201d he explained.\u00a0 \u201cAnd I showed up there. And I had a lot of trust in the fact that Pixar had been working, developing this film for a long time. And they were right down to the point where they needed to animate along with a soundtrack.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd because of their privacy rules that they made, I was not to know anything about who I was playing until I got there. I got some dialogue the night before, and it was actually mailed under strict confidence by a messenger so nobody else could grab it out of the mailbox, and started to work over at the Pixar Studios in Burbank, which was absolutely empty, except for me and the two people helping place the mic and set up the monitor, with the five creative executives who were now going to tell me what to do and who I was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d never done anything like this before, which made it kind of exciting and fun and gave me an excuse to say, \u2018Hey, I didn\u2019t know that,\u2019 you know?\u201d<\/p>\n