Josh Brolin recently opened up about his relationship with his father James Brolin, as well as revealing a scary but hilarious childhood memory involving his pet pig. James, who starred in The Amityville Horror (1979), has been a strong influence on the Avengers: Infinity War star; However, his sense of humor appears to be contradictory.
The younger Brolin had a childhood incident to tell on Graham Bensinger’s podcast titled In Depth. He remembered how, as a boy, he had lovingly raised two pigs, Oink and Snort. Brolin began, “So this story of me raising pigs, it’s a terrible story.”
One evening, at dinner, his father tells the family that they are eating one of the pigs. Josh was completely surprised and disturbed by such a revelation and wondered why a father would tell a child, especially in such a celebratory tone, that this particular pig was on their plate.
The Sicario actor said, “I helped raise these pigs, and then we were having dinner one night – it’s amazing to me that he would tell you that story. It makes him look pretty bad.”
Josh looks back on his upbringing, plagued by the ups and downs of financial insecurity and moving between Malibu and Santa Barbara for most of his childhood. His mother worked as a casting director, and his father gained moderate fame on TV as an actor in Marcus Welby, MD, etc.
He said, “[James Brolin]would work and then not work for long periods of time. We’d have things, and then we wouldn’t have things. I don’t understand that level of financial insecurity when I was a kid. Was. “
Josh Brolin described his father as the red light at an intersection that never changes, always indicating progress but never allowing movement. Despite their complicated relationship, James openly admitted his shortcomings as a parent in an interview with The Guardian in 2009. She regretted being absent during her children’s formative years and passionately acknowledged learning parenting lessons, even if it came too late to apply them herself.
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