With creator Brian Watkins’ cool new series, Outer Range, now streaming on Prime Video, I recently spoke with Josh Brolin about making the mystery thriller. In the series, Brolin plays a Wyoming rancher struggling to keep his land, while also trying to keep his family together after dealing with a painful loss. One day while riding, Brolin discovers a mysterious black hole that doesn’t seem to have a bottom and everything changes.
As you can easily deduce, the hole plays a huge part in the story, and it’s one of those the less you know the better situations. I’ll just say I watched the first two episodes before talking to Brolin and I can’t wait to see where the series goes from here. For more on what the series is about you can read our review.
During the interview, Brolin talked about why he wanted to make this series after not doing TV for almost twenty years, how he’s been describing the series to friends, why he loves episodes seven and eight, the unusual and cool cinematography, how streaming allows them the freedom to change how many episodes are in each season and the run times, and reveals (covertly) how many seasons the series might last. He never actually says it, but when I asked him the question, you can see him quickly hold up three fingers with a smile. In addition, he talks about what someone should watch if you’ve never seen his work, the status of Dune 2, what role caused him to get Bell's palsy from stress, and if he knows anything about Deadpool 3.
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