Josh Brolin Tells Us How to Succeed In Hollywood

Josh Brolin had accepted that he wasn’t going to be in Hollow Man. It was the end of 1999, the last moments of a decade that had seen many career ups and downs for the veteran actor, and although he had auditioned for Paul Verhoeven’s big-budget, Kevin Bacon–starring sci-fi thriller, the studio didn’t seem to like him in the fairly thankless role of Dr. Matt Kensington, Elisabeth Shue’s boyfriend and Bacon’s second fiddle. It was a story that Brolin, who had just turned 30, was quickly getting used to: “They wanted new people.