Thanos Was An Easy Choice For Josh Brolin To Make

Being bad is just so good.

When asked how easy it was to say “Yes,” to playing Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Very,” is what Josh Brolin told MTV. “I’ve become a guy who’s like oh yeah, they offered me a part and I said no, which is not as common as we talk about it. But ‘Everest’ was one, Thanos was the other,” he said.

“I’d turned down a lot of these things or bigger movies and immediately they sent me a huge book of all [executive producer Louis D’Esposito’s] stuff because I wasn’t too familiar,” Brolin said of the offer to play Thanos. “I was in England doing ‘Everest,’ I was halfway through the book and I was like, ‘I’m so in.’”

Everest comes out this week, in which Brolin will attempt to conquer the world’s most intimidating mountain, but it may have been more intimidating to play the purple Titan in motion capture form. “It’s really nerve-racking, but in an exciting way,” Brolin said.

For a complete list of Marvel films in which Brolin’s Thanos can pop up, including Avengers: Infinity War, check out our Comic Movie Release Schedule.