Interview with Josh Brolin on Hail, Caesar! In the new Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar!, Josh Brolin plays Eddie Mannix, a harried Hollywood fixer in the early 1950s. Mannix has to manage kidnapped star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), water ballet princess DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson), song and dance man Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum), director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) and cowboy songster Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) in this tale about the golden days of Hollywood. We got a chance to chat with Josh Brolin about the film, getting to slap George Clooney, the real men his character was based on and working with the Coen brothers again.