The Great Ganesha

Picture Source: IMdB

In an interview with the cast and filmmakers of the upcoming Coen Brothers’ film, No Country For Old Men, Javier Bardem (and the Coens) talk about how his hair came to look the way it was in the movie.

Lisa Schwarzbaum (Moderator): I think there are two things that dominate this film - one is landscape and the other is hair. It is the hair of your character. How was that decided?

Javier Bardem: I think it was a decision taken by the brothers and Paul Le Blanc, no? And i was just the victim. I just had to live with it for the next three months.

LS: So you didn’t come in and say this is how I like it?

JB: No. No, I’m not that sick.

And later, Josh Brolin recounts an off-set remark made by Bardem.

Javier got his hair cut and then we went to the Cowgirl Cafe, which is kind-of a lesbian bar in Santa Fe. And he was sitting there, and he was kind-of depressed and I said,

“You know, it’s all good. It’s the Coens. You know, you love their movies.”

He looks to me and he goes (in a spot-on Bardem impression),

“I’m not going to be laid for three months!”

It’s from a whole series of videos on YouTube culled from one show by IFC News. Watch the ‘hair’ part of the interview: