“I loved doing the tests for that movie with Vijay and the snake,” he says. Tragically, the world was denied Brolin’s Bond because, at the last minute, Moore changed his mind. He’s sort of like a US David Jason, but with a storied movie career too, which runs from the original Westworld film to Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, and his low and rich rumble has made him a favourite for voiceovers – for Lightyear he is voicing the role of Buzz’s archenemy, Emperor Zurg.īrolin was, and remains, strapping and dashing (Streisand ain’t no fool), so much so that he played Clark Gable in the 1976 film Gable and Lombard, and was picked by Cubby Broccoli to be the next Bond when Roger Moore, then 56 years old, said he didn’t want to make Octopussy. He starred in the hit medical series Marcus Welby, MD (1969-1976), for which he won two Golden Globes and an Emmy, and in primetime soap opera Hotel (1983-1988). And when I looked out at the crowds all watching her I thought: ‘Oh wow!’” In the US, Brolin is TV royalty of long standing.
