'Deadpool' felt like business transaction: Josh

Hollywood star Josh Brolin says he previously more pleasurable in playing villainous Thanos within the last two Avengers films while his role of Cable in 'Deadpool 2' felt harder despite being funny. During an interview with James and Roger Deakins on this week's bout of the Team Deakins podcast, Brolin said acting in 'Deadpool 2' felt like "more of a business transaction" as he had to tailor his performance to suit the precise comedic tone of the franchise. 

Thanos, along with his obsession for balance in the universe, on the other hand, gave him more room to experiment.  "I mentioned Brando in Apocalypse Now, this guy who is very elusive and insane but what he's saying makes sense and is poetical," Brolin said. "

I started seeing the parallel that i liked for me personally. I loved having the ability to resort to a film like Apocalypse Now when I was doing something similar to 'Avengers'." Though Brolin's Thanos was made by making use of the motion capture technology, to the actor it felt like he was tapping into someone who felt such as a "real guy." "This is not a big purple guy, that is a guy with insides and cells and feelings. Then it became fun. If you ask me, it was like likely to do 1970s black box Theater in NY. You totally resort to your imagination. It really is absolutely behavioral, if not more, than other movies," the actor said.