How The Hobbit Convinced Josh Brolin To Play MCU's Thanos

Avengers: Infinity War

Josh Brolin was prompt to spiel Thanos inAvengers : Infinity Warby Benedict Cumberbatch ’s function inThe Hobbit . Brolin voices the deed theatrical role in the box office mega - hit after first seduce his first appearance appearing in James Gunn’sGuardians of the Galaxyback in 2014 .

retaliator : Infinity Waris directed by Anthony and Joe Russo , and it has been heralded as Thanos ' celluloid ever since the head start of output . This film was meant to showcase Thanos ' story and his journey to get all six Infinity Stones , which he used to pass over out half of all life in the universe of discourse . But before all that happened , Marvel Studios needed to find the right someone to play the Mad Titan . Brolin was finally throw off in the use , but that does n’t mean he did n’t hesitate to assume the gig .

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In an audience withSiriusXM , Brolin says that , in researching the Thanos character , he follow across a video recording of Benedict Cumberbatch acting out a scene for his type , Smaug , inThe Hobbit , which win over him that playing a apparent movement - capture character could go .

" … I saw Benedict Cumberbatch do I cerebrate it was for The Hobbit . And I await on YouTube , when I was determine whether I wanted to do it or not , and he was in this mo - pileus suit on and he was in this big storage warehouse , and he ’s crawling around like a ophidian , break down his tongue out and doing this incredible performance … I get wind that and was like , all right , that ’s the ginmill – this is not bulls**t ; this is something you have to sink your teeth into : conviction , embarrassment , all that kind of stuff . Then , I decided , yeah . "

In the closing , not only did Brolin take the role but he also knocked it out of the park ( thanks in part toInfinity War ’s unbelievable CGI ) . He delivered an exceptional performance as Thanos and is bear to do so again in the Russos ' untitledAvengers 4next year . It ’s unclear if he will continue to work the character beyond the two Avengers pic , but with respect to Thanos ' tale , there ’s much more to tell in phase angle 4 and beyond , if that ’s something that Marvel Studios is looking into doing with the Marvel Cinematic Universe .

Overall , Brolin has been having quite the year , having first come along inAvengers : Infinity Warin late April and then inDeadpool 2 in mid - May ( in which he played Cable ) - two massive blockbuster superhero movies . But that ’s not all , Brolin also has theSicariosequel , Sicaro : Day of the Soldado , fall up later this month before conclude his wild running play at the worldwide box office . And it will all start up again next year when Brolin ’s Thanos take on the stay fellow member of the Avengers inAvengers 4 , thus concluding the first MCU saga .