Josh Brolin
speaker
488 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Josh Brolin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Has anybody ever told you you should... Like, have you ever thought about, I know you run a motel or a hotel or whatever it is, but you thought about acting? Now, did he laugh? No. And then I hear Sean go, dude, shut the fuck up. No, he didn't laugh, but he was like, what? You talking to me? Yeah, yeah.
And I was like, your face, the way you're sitting in that chair, it's just so kind of celebrity. But why not? We're in this life once. No, but you said it before, and it's like, and I don't mean to make it morbid or anything, but you said death wish. It was never a death wish. I never had a death wish. It was a vivid wish.
I just wanted things. Maybe it was the LSD I took at 13. I don't know. But it was like, I just wanted, my mom was that. She just wanted it heightened.
Yeah, but she wasn't, you know, she wasn't, and I would say this if she was, she wasn't particularly sexual. Again, it was more about whatever the event was. Like if we went into a restaurant, it was very rare my mom didn't end up in the kitchen. Yes.
You know, and my mom cooked every day, whether there was somebody on the ranch or not, she cooked every day and then she'd put it on somebody's fence post. So she cooked all the time. And I have all those recipes. I have a whole wall full of recipes that she, they're all handwritten and all that. So it's very cool. But the truth of the matter is, is that she was a big drinker.
She would go out, she was loud. She was masculine. You know, if she wanted to kiss you, There's nothing that would stop her from doing that. She would grab you, she would pull you across the table, and then she'd give you a kiss. And then something else would come up, you know? Right. Somebody would bark, and then she'd look over and, you know what I mean?
It was like a high-pitched whistle dog thing. She just wanted to be in the nucleus of everything of what was most heightened and most interesting. Without knowing why. And she was always like that. She would tell me that her parents were super sweet parents, teachers, really smart, Corpus Christi, Texas, and that she was always sneaking out of the house. She was always causing trouble.
She always had animals in her garage that she was hiding. She was just that in an organic way. And I don't have it in the book. She ended up... She ran away from home when she was 19. The first people she met were Clint and Maggie Eastwood, right? So that's before Clint did Rawhide or any of that. They kind of took her under their wing. She hung out in Hollywood. She grew up Baptist, very strict.
She started sleeping with all these guys, married men and all that. She kind of went crazy, took a bunch of pills, got in a car, started hitting a bunch of parked cars, ended up in Camarillo State Hospital. Three and a half weeks, they assessed her. Three and a half weeks later, they said, look, she's not crazy. She just had a moment.
They go to Camarillo State Hospital to pick her up and she doesn't want to leave. She goes, I like it here. It's fun. And she had become friends with a lady. I mean, again, this is super morbid, but a lady who had hacked up her whole family and hadn't talked for 12 years. And I can see it right now, probably sat next to her and said... I don't understand why you're not talking.
Do you not talk at all? Do you have a voice or do you have this? And the girl finally said candy. And it was like a whole breakthrough.
Out of total annoyance, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah.
But, you know, I don't tell that story because there's no need to tell that story because it has that in the fabric of each story. And you can see that for me in my life. It's hard to tell those stories when you're promoting a book because who the fuck wants to read about that? But at the same time, you go, that's normal, man. That's normal for us.
Whatever that means. And then you go, why would I be an actor? I had no interest in being an actor. Like my dad's profession is, didn't interest me in the least. There was nothing that kind of drew me toward like, what do you do? And wow, you do the thing. And it was nothing. And I took a theater class because there was like underwater basket weaving in theater.
And I was like, well, I'll do the theater. And this woman had me get up on stage. It was the first one she chose. Get up on stage, create a character, any character you want. How does he look? How does he feel? Where is he from? How does he do this? Now, as the house, we're going to ask you questions and you answer as the character.
And as I was, I was like a balding middle-aged guy from Brooklyn or something. I don't know, whatever I came up with in my head. And as I was answering in humor, once people started laughing at my answers, it just clicked. I was like, this is it. This is heightened. This is... Me able to resort to my imagination, which is far more interesting than my reality.
Yeah. Now you're family.
Now you're family. I appreciate you. No, okay.
36 out of 50. And there's, by the way, still people that when I talk about it, they go, hey, tell Brolin I'm not fucking dead, man. You know what I mean?
It was the punk rock. It was punk rock. It was the heroin epidemic. It was all that. A lot of people died.
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