The actor remembers his beloved mother, a wildlife rehabilitator, in conversation with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson.
Josh Brolinhas ferocious memories from a very wild childhood with an “animal-obsessed” mother.
In one instance, Brolin said his mother nearly fed a man to a lion.
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So we had a lot of animals growing up.
Big cats, wolves, bears, all kinds of stuff."
“She told him, ‘Look, he’s not eating.
You have to go in there and show him how to eat.
You have to sit next to him and show him.
Put your face in the bowl and show him, he needs help,'” Brolin recalled.
“Bud goes, ‘You want me to get in the thing and sit down?’
“And she goes, ‘Well, sit next to him.’
His teeth are going into my leg!’
Brolin’s unconventional childhood “was a different deal, man,” he later quipped.
“And then you go out into life and you become an actor and it’s all good.”
Listen to Brolin’s wild episode in full above, where he also discusses his sobriety and career.
