We shot a couple of scenes with Josh [playing] a baseball coach that are really really funny.
Harrison Ford’s school principal role was cut from E.T., Terrence Malick is famous/notorious for doing this to tons of actors, and now George Clooney’s done it to Josh Brolin in Suburbicon.
Sometimes, no matter how much they love them, directors have to kill their darlings and cut an actor from a movie.
I had to write him this awful note where I just said, ‘You’re not going to believe it. but these scenes really don’t work any more.’