Actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with members of a crew filming an Oliver Stone movie, were arrested during a bar fight at the weekend, police said.
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Sgt. Willie Lewis of Shreveport police in Louisianas said Brolin, Wright and five others were arrested just after 2 am at a club called the Stray Cat bar.
A call to deal with a rowdy patron drew interference from other patrons, Lewis said.
The Times of Shreveport reported that Brolin was booked and posted $334 cash bond to The paper said they were part of the crew on an Oliver Stone film, W , about President George W. Bush.
W began filming in May in Shreveport. Brolin plays President Bush and Wright plays former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The cast also includes Elizabeth Banks as first lady Laura Bush, Ellen Burstyn and James Cromwell as the elder Bushes and Thandie Newton as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Brolin appeared in three films last year, In the Valley of Elah, American Gangster and No Country for Old Men , which won the best-picture Oscar.
Wright won a Tony Award for Angels in America on Broadway and a Golden Globe for the same role in the television miniseries. He also has appeared in Syriana, Ali and Casino Royale .
W is Stone's third presidential film, following Nixon and JFK . He also directed the Vietnam sagas Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon , which won four Oscars including best picture and director.
The Academy Award-winning director only began shopping his script for financing in January, but has quickly captured the interest of investors and Hollywood.
Stone has said the film, which will focus on the life and presidency of Bush, won't be an anti-Bush polemic, but, as he told Daily Variety , "a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?"
