{"id":13649,"date":"2018-06-21T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=13649"},"modified":"2018-06-21T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:30:42","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-inspired-josh-brolin-to-take-up-infinity-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=13649","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch inspired Josh Brolin to take up &#8216;Infinity War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Los Angeles, Jun 21 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> Josh Brolin says he was initially sceptical about playing Thanos in &#8220;Avengers: Infinity War&#8221;, but when he saw Benedict Cumberbatch immersive performance as Smaug in &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;, he was inspired to dig deep into his character.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old actor said the &#8220;Doctor Strange&#8221; star set high standards and he was inspired to take the challenge head on.<\/p>\n<p>While researching for his role, Brolin stumbled across a YouTube video, which showed Cumberbatch playing out the part of the dragon Smaug in a behind the scenes footage from the Peter Jackson film series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was in this (motion capture), and he&#8217;s crawling around like a snake, snapping his tongue out doing this incredible performance. I saw that and was like, all right, that&#8217;s the bar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not like bulls**t. This is something you Have to sink your teeth into conviction, embarrassment, and all this kind of stuff,&#8221; Brolin told EW.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Infinity War&#8221; released on April 27 and went on to become the fourth-highest grossing movie of all time, with close to USD 2 billion at global box-office.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, Jun 21 (DIN NEWS) Josh Brolin says he was initially sceptical about playing Thanos in &#8220;Avengers: Infinity War&#8221;, but when he saw Benedict Cumberbatch immersive performance as Smaug in &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;, he was inspired to dig deep into his character. The 50-year-old actor said the &#8220;Doctor Strange&#8221; star set high standards and he was inspired to take the challenge head on. While researching for his role, Brolin stumbled across a YouTube video, which showed Cumberbatch playing out the part of the dragon Smaug in a behind the scenes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13651,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions\/13651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}