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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

Josh Brolin on Donald Trump: ‘There’s no greater genius than him in marketing’

Josh Brolin at the Los Angeles premiere of  Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
‘Having been a friend of Trump before he was president, I know a different guy’ … Josh Brolin at the Los Angeles premiere of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Photograph: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Actor Josh Brolin says President Trump was a “different guy” when he first met him in 2009, and that “there is no greater genius than [Trump] in marketing”.

Brolin was speaking to the Independent to promote his new film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and said that while his clergyman character was not based on the president, there was a similarity in that once he “garners a sense of power, then there are no boundaries”.

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