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The Michael Berry Show

Whoa, No Country For Old Men Was Almost A Completely Different Picture

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry show you've seen no country problem at least 10 times

0:04.8

Okay, how many times you think you've seen it? Three times. Okay, that's sufficient that that anything less than that would be questionable. Do you remember the guy that

0:15.4

plays Lou Ellen Moss or I think his last name was Moss Lou Ellen he's the the Vietnam

0:22.0

veteran and she says Lou Allen.

0:25.0

Remember him?

0:26.0

He lives in the trailer?

0:28.0

So I read an interesting story this weekend.

0:31.0

He wasn't supposed to be in that movie. His father was. When the Cohen's

0:38.4

casting director cast the Brolin as the Vietnam veteran.

0:46.3

They had signed Tommy Lee Jones, right?

0:51.5

And it was supposed to be these Vietnam veterans

0:58.6

Vietnam veterans and Vietnam era who 30 40 years later the world had changed on them,

1:06.0

the world that they'd known in the 60s and 70s.

1:10.0

When Josh Brolin, the son of the established actor, they thought they were getting arrived,

1:22.1

they didn't know who he was because he hadn't really done much on screen at that point.

1:29.0

And he was shocked that he got the role for this thing, especially to play a Vietnam veteran.

1:34.0

No idea that that they were thinking of his dad who was well known at the time.

1:42.0

So his contract was signed. The Coans decided they would they would

1:51.7

figure out a way to put Tommy Lee Jones in a different role.

1:55.0

Maybe the old man that he goes and visits.

2:00.0

And I think Shiah Labuff was going to be brought in.

2:04.0

What they were going to do is make it a...

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