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A Drunken Awards-Show Speech and Friendships With Cormac McCarthy and Joel Coen: Four Takeaways from Josh Brolin’s Memoir
In the 'Dune' actor Josh Brolin's new memoir 'From Under the Truck,' he discusses his substance abuse and famous friends and family.
Later in the book, he describes life on the set of “No Country for Old Men,” where he’s a regular at the bars in town to the extent that a crew member distributes T-shirts with the slogan “I BLAME JOSH BROLIN” and “a photo of my drunk face someone had taken during one of those weekends of debauchery — wearing a cowboy hat and a big, dumbass smile.” On set, he describes his reflection on his mother, and the chaos she left in her wake, after waking up just before noon: “I think of my mother and how she held that .22 rifle on her boyfriend because she didn’t want him to leave.” “The Goonies” gives rise to sweet and somewhat melancholy reflections on staying in an Oregon motor inn with the rest of the young cast and getting encouragement from producer Steven Spielberg (“He smiled a little bit once. Sustaining friendships: Brolin writes sometimes allusively about the many, many A-listers he’s met over his career, including Joaquin Phoenix, with whom he gets beers after wrapping “Inherent Vice” (about Phoenix winning an Oscar for “Joker,” he writes, “wow, how ironic: being a famous actor playing someone who is unseen and almost invisible and getting more famous for it), and an unnamed actor-director, whom Brolin insults while blackout drunk at the Chateau Marmont before attempting, unsuccessfully, to make amends through the director’s agent.
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