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Josh Brolin on His New Memoir and Why Denis Villeneuve Deserves an Oscar for ‘Dune 2’: ‘If He Doesn’t Get Nominated … I’ll Quit Acting’
Josh Brolin talks about writing a memoir, sober living and why his 'Dune 2' director deserves an Oscar.
There’s a moment in Josh Brolin ‘s raw, frequently self-eviscerating memoir “From Under the Truck” where the actor, shirtless, shoeless and wandering around Manhattan’s Upper West Side with a crippling hangover, runs into Philip Seymour Hoffman. It’s 1992, and Hoffman is freshly sober and embarking on his brilliant career on screen and stage, while Brolin is at one of his periodic low points, strung out from too much booze and too many drugs. The book moves backward and forward in time, mixing in memories of growing up on a ranch in Paso Robles, Calif., with his wild-child mom and famous dad, “The Amityville Horror” star James Brolin, with scenes from the sets of “The Goonies” and “Inherent Vice.” Instead of airbrushed anecdotes about a life in the spotlight, Brolin shares stories about masturbating with the help of hotel pillows or drunkenly insulting Robert De Niro at an awards show luncheon.
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