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Actor Josh Brolin spent countless hours studying the president's speech patterns and body language but said he wasn't trying to concoct a spitting-image impression, which ran the potential of becoming a "Saturday Night Live" caricature."It's not for me to get the voice down perfectly," Brolin said, though he came close. More important, he said, was to unearth Bush's inner voice -- "Where is my place in this world? How do I get remembered?"Like other actors approached for the film (including Robert Duvall, who was asked but declined to play Vice President Dick Cheney), Brolin had more than vague misgivings about starring in "W." He was initially dead-set against it. Then, early one morning during a family ski trip, Brolin read the original screenplay, which covers Bush from 1967 to 2004. "It was very different than what I thought it would be, which was a far-left hammering of the president," Brolin said.Brolin said many friends still weren't buying it. "There were a lot of people I tried to get involved," he said.
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