"I have a bit of a past and when they were trying figure out who might be best to play him, they thought what about Brolin?" Brolin told O'Brien, referencing his 2013 arrest for public intoxication.

"Who has been to jail in the last 10 years?" Brolin has apparently been doing his research for the film. "He refused to speak in anything but duck voice for three years," Brolin says. Read more - here.

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