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Josh Brolin on his wild life: weed at 9, LSD at 13, jail 9 times

The Oscar-nominated actor and Marvel villain (and stepson of Barbra Streisand) tells Audrey Ward how he survived his destructive childhood and finally got sober. Plus, read an extract from his new memoir

It’s not sanitised: there’s debauchery, asides on masturbation (“Push two pillows together: instant vagina”) and some sex, including with a prostitute in Paris “whose blonde hair I can still feel lying softly on my hand”. Their father is James Brolin, the actor and two-time Golden Globe winner, most famous for his roles in Marcus Welby MD and The Virginian, who went on to marry the singer Barbra Streisand in 1998 — “My dad has had a certain woman. “At the audition, Ethan Coen, the co-director, said, ‘Can you do a West Texas accent?’ and I said, ‘I just did,’ and he goes, ‘OK.’ I left thinking, ‘That’s not going to happen.’ ” But at midday he got the call offering him the part of the steely but hapless cowboy Llewelyn Moss, who finds a suitcase of cash in the wake of a drug deal gone wrong.

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