George W. Bush Actor Josh Brolin Tells Joe Rogan He Skipped Out On Meeting President He Played Because Of His Dog Paintings

Josh Brolin revealed to Joe Rogan that he had the opportunity to meet the president he portrayed in a movie, George W. Bush, but the Republicans paintings of dogs convinced him to skip it.

Brolin joined Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast this week and the pair discussed everything from Jeffrey Epstein to Cormac McCarthy. Rogan asked Brolin about a number of his movies, including No Country For Old Men, adapted from McCarthy, and Oliver Stone’s W., a 2008 film in which Brolin portrayed former President George W. Bush.

“What is it like playing a guy who is still alive?” Rogan asked Brolin.

“Scary,” Brolin said.

“Did you meet with him?” Rogan asked.

“No,” Brolin responded.

The actor revealed he had an opportunity to meet the former president after he had already filmed his part.

“I had the opportunity to meet him afterwards and there was something about him that was more — remember when he was giving candy Michelle Obama and all that?” Brolin said.

The actor was referring to Bush giving candy to former First Lady Michelle Obama at his father’s funeral in 2018.

“There was a really friendly, kind of a mischievous thing and I was like, I would like to meet him,” Brolin recalled. “And then I saw the paintings of his dogs and I said, ‘I don’t want to meet him.'”

Rogan immediately broke into laughter. Bush has been painting since 2012.

“There was something attractive for a moment,” Brolin said.

“What was it about the paintings that got you?” Rogan asked his guest.

“I don’t know! And I love paintings. I don’t know what it was,” Brolin responded, attempting to come up with an answer he could put into words.

“You didn’t like the paintings?” Rogan asked.

“No, it’s not that I didn’t like the paintings,” Brolin said. “I don’t know what it was, man.”

Rogan theorized there’s something odd about contrasting the innocence of the paintings to the deadly wars under Bush, specifically the Iraq War.

“You know that ‘something’ in the paintings was, ‘I killed a million people with fake weapons of mass destruction. We had a fake story and I used that story to justify an invasion of a country and now a million people are dead and I’m haunted every night,” Rogan said. “So I just paint dogs.”

“That are starting like that!” Brolin exclaimed as Rogan opened his eyes wide to mimic Bush’s paintings.

Watch above via The Joe Rogan Experience.