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'They TAZED Me, Man': The Josh And Jeffrey Shooting Script

Seth — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:45:17 EST

We can't believe an artifact like the Josh Brolin/Jeffrey Wright squad-car exchange actually exists, so hilarious is their post-tazing chemistry. The buddy comedy of the year inspired us to type out the whole damn thing.

Yes, the Defamer Transcription Dept.—whose work you've enjoyed previously in The Colin Farrell Sex Tape and A Visit with the Trumps—has once again turned in a masterful dramatic record.

Enjoy:

JOSH: [Laughs] Want a kiss? Wanna kissy? Mwwwwah. Lets just lay back and relax man.

JEFFREY: No I know, but it's like uhhh...

JOSH: You can't say anything, man. I'm the only who can motherfucking say anything.

JEFFREY: Oh...my god. You gotta be fucking kidding me.

JOSH: It's unbelievable. Why did you think they were going to get you?...No no no, I understand for you. It's major. But for me, I mean, it's bad, man. I mean I didn't get in the way, man. I didn't even get in the way. I was like wait—what are you doing with him? Bottles were out.

JEFFREY: They didn't know they took that other person down.

JOSH: They maced me, man. They maced the shit out of me.

JEFFREY: They TAZED me in my back ribs! They stuck a tazer in there!

JOSH: [Laughs]

JEFFREY: They did the mace...

JOSH: I heard 'em. I heard 'em. I heard 'em. [Laughs] I heard 'em.

JEFFREY: Then they stuck the tazer and they went NYEEAOwwahhh.

JOSH: I heard 'em. I heard 'em. Jeffrey.

JEFFREY: I came here at like about 5 o'clock in the morning looking for a pizza one night...and I said, "What, you gonna, you gonna, what...it's like you don't serve anybody after 5?" And I said, "Shut the fuck up!" Josh it was something like ridiculous!

JOSH: Ohh my god.

JEFFREY: That I said to the sheriff—

JOSH: That's so fucking bad. It's so bad. It's so bad you can't even say anything. You can't even say anything. Just let me talk. But I've been here. This is my seventh time. I'm used to this shit. I'm used to this shit. [Laughs] I love it. I LOVE it.

JEFFREY: It's all good.

JOSH: My wife's gonna be so happy.

JEFFREY: Oh my god.

We encourage all re-enactments, mash-ups, and tribute videos. Send them here, and we'll post the best ones! Actually we'll post any and all of them if you actually go to the trouble of making one.

Arrested Josh Brolin Engages in Game of Kissy One-Upmanship

Kyle Buchanan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:40:34 EST

The W. DVD is going to have some killer double features. First, video was leaked of the violent arrest of Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, and now TMZ has their surprisingly funny squad car banter.

As befits a modern man-duo, Brolin and Wright have a chemistry that's equal parts homoerotic bonding and Hollywood narcissism. The former is on display when Brolin attends to Wright's wounded ego with a little bit of kissy-kissy, and the latter is at full volume as the two tussle over who suffers most over the arrest. "I understand for you it's major," reassures Brolin, "but for me, it's bad." Still, we have to give the trophy to Wright: "They TASED me, man!" In the annals of celebrity pity parties, that's a hard one to trump.

Cop Cam: Brolin Plays Kissy Kissy in Police Car [TMZ]

Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright Charges Dropped; Vicious New Video Hints Why

STV — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:47:25 EST

W. co-stars Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright were cleared today of charges they interfered with a crew member's arrest last summer in Shreveport. Violent, taserific new footage defies you to disagree.

Brolin and Wright spent minimal time in jail for their part in the July 12 fracas outside Shreveport's Stray Cat Bar, where the W. gang had gathered for the film's wrap party. We think the accompanying video — showing Brolin in a cuffed, post-pepper-spray shock while a helpless Wright is tasered prodigiously in the street — suggests Brolin may have been on to something when he pledged to fight the cops whom he alleged "immediately resorted to violence" that night.

Bonus points to the unflinching camerawoman who recorded the scene, apparently submitting the footage to a bit of Ted Turner-grade colorization before its release today. If she happened to get any of last night's Brolin-on-Penn action on the record, we'd love to see it.

Caught On Tape — Cops Attack Actors [TMZ]

Crusading Josh Brolin To Take On Tasers, Shreveport Cops in Next Role

STV — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT

W. star and Shreveport jail alumnus Josh Brolin spoke up for the first time on Wednesday about his bar brawl and subsequent detention by that city's police, illustrating a Southern idyll where he was maced, co-star Jeffrey Wright was Tasered and his assistant was hauled to jail for "asking too many questions." And while Brolin and his lawyers wait for the authorities to drop the charges that require him back in court later this fall, we're finally learning exactly how not throw a wrap party in Louisiana — if you must throw one at all:

[N]one of us were drunk, we had just finished shooting three or four hours before. We were out...in the beginning, it was like [smacks hand] okay! It was time! We did it! We were so proud, what an accomplishment!...and then this fucking happens.

To me it was ridiculous. I have never seen...I have never ever, ever, ever, ever seen an escalation of paranoia and abuse like that...ever. And I know a lot of cops. Everybody knows I have a checkered past and I've been in situations that are kind of tough. I've never ever been treated like that by cops. Ever. [...]

I don't know the specifics between Jeffrey [Wright] and the bartender, but he was asked to leave, and I know that was why the cops came, to say okay, it's time to escort you out. Not because [Jeffrey] was yelling or screaming. He was just saying look, I'm here with my friends, I'm celebrating the end of our movie, and then they escorted him out, [and] we wanted to know why, and they didn't want to tell us. They immediately resorted to violence. Which is what the police are there to try and stop and prevent. That didn't happen. They were the violent ones.

Brolin also confirmed the existence of a cell-phone video of the incident: "It was us going ... you can see it on the tape ... us going 'whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.' There was no fight-back at all."

The fight-back apparently starts now, though, with Brolin retrenching in the press with references to other alleged police brutality in Shreveport — particularly with Tasers, which he claimed recently killed a 21-year-old detainee (although that incident actually occurred in Winnfield, La., about 60 miles southeast of Shreveport) and are ritually abused across the country. "I'm done being nice," he told Wells. "What's the worst, they're gonna put me in jail a couple of months because I spoke out about [their] abuse?" Only if they do it the week of the Oscars, hot shot.

What Happened Was [Hollywood Elsewhere]

First 'W.' Teaser Paints All-Star Portrait of Happy-Go-Lucky Megalomaniac

STV — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:50:00 EDT

"You're a Bush! Act like one!" So begins the heartwarming teaser for W., Oliver Stone's lighting-round satire of George W. Bush's trajectory from hard-partying Texas schlub to dynastic political ringleader. And if we ever doubted the likelihood this would be a satire, one run through the casting roll call — a montage of furrowed brows and hammy smiles clearly drawing from the influential opening credits of Benson — all but confirms the variety-show flavor of the administration's antics. From Truman Capote as Karl Rove to Thandie Newton making her best law-circumventing face as Condoleezza Rice, this is shaping up to as the shrewdest political comedy of the season. NB: If our make-up looked as half-assed as Jeffrey Wright's does here as Colin Powell, we probably would have overturned the wrap party, too. Go easy on him, Shreveport. [via First Showing]

The good times keep a-rollin' in Louisiana...

STV — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:40:00 EDT

The good times keep a-rollin' in Louisiana for the Stray Cat Gang — including Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and a smattering of crew members arrested at Saturday's W wrap party in Shreveport. New reports allege Wright fielded at least one ethnic slur from an onlooker after being escorted out of the Stray Cat with unruly lighting technician Eric Felland. Brolin and company went down a little later when coming to Wright's aid — i.e. "interfering with that arrest," according to Shreveport police Cpl. Robert Elliott. Furthermore, "a rep for Brolin ... didn't say what the rehabbed actor was drinking," according to Rush and Molloy. Next up for the group: An encore on Dec. 2, when all are due back in court. Meanwhile, chalk up another incentive for filmmaking in Louisiana — the only state where you can cast, scout and produce an entire movie faster than the legal system can prosecute its stars. [NYDN]

Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright Hauled Off by Cops in Lifelike 'W' Publicity Coup

STV — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:45:00 EDT

If we had just produced an entire feature film in about 12 days like the gang behind Oliver Stone's W, then we, too, would probably have been in a bit of hell-raising mood when it was all said and done. We're not sure if getting arrested would have been on the agenda, but we'll grant newly shorn Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright the benefit of the doubt, anyway: The duo, who play President Bush and Colin Powell in the film, spent some time in custody early Saturday after coming to the aid of a rowdy crew member at a bar in Shreveport, La.

According to police called to the Stray Cat at 2 a.m., the actors and four other crew members "interfered" with the other's arrest:

A Brolin insider told the Daily News that the actor was not involved in a physical scuffle, as several news outlets previously reported. "He was released very soon after the incident," the source said. "It was not a bar fight. It wasn't a physical situation."
Brolin was released from jail after paying $334 bail; Wright wasn't listed in police booking records as of Saturday evening.

Nevertheless, there's Wright's mug shot, boosting Team W pride just in time for the Vanity Fair delegation reportedly en route to visit the principals that day. And what a scene that would greet them: No different than any authentic Bush kegstand, really, with four squad cars, bike cops and a canine unit arriving to squelch the fun. We can't wait to see what carnage ensues if these guys actually do premiere before election day — in character as Dick Cheney, Richard Dreyfuss alone is good for at least a couple overhead beer-bottle smashes before he breaks out his shotgun.

[Photo credit: Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright, others on Oliver Stone film arrested [NYDN]

"Bush," "Colin Powell" Nabbed In Bar Fight [CBS]