‘Monsters’ Star Javier Bardem On His Golden Globe Nomination, His Distaste For Violence & Why He Felt Depressed On ‘No Country For Old Men’

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it was Javier Bardem‘s wife, Penélope Cruz, who was the one to reveal to her husband that he earned his seventh Golden Globe nomination for playing Jose Menendez on Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

The couple were with their children in Abu Dhabi, where Bardem is filming F1 opposite Brad Pitt, Kerry Condon and Tobias Menzies, when she revealed the good news. “The family came here to pay a visit, and I asked my wife to check Google for the nominations,” Bardem tells Deadline. “And she said, ‘what do you mean?’ I said, ‘well the Golden Globe nominations are today.’ She said, why didn’t you tell me before?’ I said, why would I?

Let’s see what happens. Then she looked at me and said, ‘you are nominated.’ It was nice and easy.” If Bardem wins the Globe, it will be his second win for playing a monster; the first time came after depicting the killer Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, which also earned Bardem his first Academy Award.

Here, Bardem talks about the challenges of working with such dark and heavy material, whether he liked Jose, and what it was like to appear in his first limited series. “I was expecting it to be more frantic, more unstable, more artistically poor,” Bardem tells Deadline. “What I found was absolutely the opposite.” DEADLINE Josh Brolin recently talked to Joe Rogan for his podcast and he brought up how you were depressed a lot on No Country because of your haircut, and more importantly, because you didn’t like the violence.