BROLIN PROUD OF BAR FIGHT WHICH LANDED HIM IN JAIL
JOSH BROLIN wears his 2008 jail time as a badge of honour - because he’s proud he stood up for W co-star JEFFREY WRIGHT in a Louisiana bar encount er.
The actors were arrested and charged with interfering with police busin ess following the altercation at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport but the charges against both have since been dropped.
And Brolin insists he’d do what he did all over again - whatever the co nsequences - because he hates bar bullies.
He tells Playboy magazine, "Going to jail that time was for an excellen t reason: Jeffrey Wright didn’t do anything… I don’t like bullies. I do n’t like when people are mistreated.
"There was a bartender and other people, and I said to these guys, ‘You have to be able to look me in the eye and acknowledge that it’s wrong th at this guy’s going to jail. I want you to have some integrity about your own f**king decision. I’m a big guy. You get scared and want to put me d own? I get it. Pepper spray my face and I get confrontational; I don’t ge t violent.’ I got slammed on the ground at that point." Wright was tasered in the fracas and Brolin’s assistant was arrested fo r "asking too many questions".
The Jonah Hex star adds, "She was more assaulted than anybody else. The back of her head was slammed on the ground.
"I heard this melon-like squish and she wound up with a baseball-size s welling on her head. I freaked out because I kept saying, ‘She didn’t do anything’."
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