Ouch! That’s got to hurt! George Clooney has revealed that he had to cut Josh Brolin’s supportive role in his upcoming dark tale Suburbicon.
From the first trailer, which launched just last month, the Coen Brothers written Suburbicon, led audiences to believe their newest outing was a dark comedy from the carefully pieced together preview. However, helmer George Clooney has dampened that notion but explaining that its plot is actually a dark thriller.
Clooney revealed to EW that he had to cut Brolin’s scenes purely because he brought too much comedy to the piece shifting the whole tone of what he wanted to do with the picture.
“We shot a couple of scenes with Josh [playing] a baseball coach that are really really funny. But 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.
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.’ He felt bad, and he thought maybe something went wrong, and I said, ‘I’m sending you the scenes, so you can see, they’re actually the two funniest scenes in the movie.’
I remember sitting there with the editor going, ‘F–k! I can’t believe this!’ But I’ve sort of been in the same situation. I did a bunch of scenes in ‘Thin Red Line‘ and then got a call from Terry [Malick], saying, ‘We’re cutting out everything except the very last scene.’ I was like, ‘Please cut me completely out of the movie! Don’t leave me in one scene!‘”
Set in 1959, Suburbicon stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac in a dark crime comedy which has Matt Damon down as a perfect family man on the outside who gets mixed up with all the wrong people.
