Josh Brolin Almost Ruined “The Goonies” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

we have another connection which is. because you mentioned this a lot in your. book and you tell this great story but. the set where we shot our show our TBS. show for 10 years was the set with the. uh where they shot The Goonies on Warner. Brothers oh really yes so and so I know. you tell this great story where uh the. director Doner and and I think Spielberg. they wanted it to be a surprise when you. guys come out of the water and see the. ship for the first time.

so they had you all go underwater with. your eyes closed backwards and then turn. underwater with an underwater speaker. saying we'll tell you when to come up. when to come up and and they wanted your. honest reactions to seeing this massive. gallion that they had built for the. first time and speak about screwing. things up what did you. do I came up they said go and I I heard. everybody else coming up so I was late. so I wasn't thinking I came up I looked.

at it I turned around I looked at it and. I went. and Donner goes. what no I goes. sorry sorry he goes go back under go. back under this is a g. movie you know and also you can't do. that again you can't see it for the. first time again no that's what I'm. saying go back under I ruined the whole. thing and again like when we go back and. talking about this book is that you know. you go oh we're Hing Jim Brolin's son or.

whatever and he auditioned six times and. I was I was right for that part I look. at it objectively and I go I was right I. look like a jock I look like the Sean. Aston but the truth of the matter is is. they were hiring a Sito rat they were. hiring a guy who was already doing have. done a lot I'd already been to jail two. times right so you know when I go up and. say it's. organic it's not like oh my God. that's so big.

it's so hard being an actor's. son anyway I was going to show you I. keep reaching for this and I'm going to. show you keep talking and I'll show you. all right well anyway this is a podcast. see and I'll just keep talking while the. guy I'm interviewing isn't paying. attention that's not how this works all. what am I supposed to do this is I don't. know this is a picture of me it's my. mother JB is a kid.

it's me in my crib with a mountain. lion holy there you go let me. see oh my God that is and it's not a cub. it is an adolescent Mountain line and. that's that's is that your mom putting. it in that's my mom taking the picture. look at the camera I'm like I'm not I'm. not taking my eyes off the mountain. light I'm not looking at the camera this. is like you and Melanie Griffith didn't. herur TI they knew each other they did. know each they grew up on a on a like.

farm with all these lions and everything. there's a and if you look at the face it. will tell you everything not that I was. beaten that's what it is growing up with. wild animals because you're constantly. getting CLA in the face but also bites. my mom called what's interesting about. this what's really fascinating about. this book is that you jump between oh my. God Goonies oh my God look at that in. the book you jump between the sort of. iconic.

Hollywood experiences where it's you and. sea Penn and you're meeting Robert dairo. for the first time and you had this. great thing you're such a wise you've. never met daero before he sits down at. the table and you say I don't mean to be. it's like even joking around with you. like I'm in this thing right now it's. like I don't mean to be mean there's. like people that I like Co bear you you. know I get along with really well and. then I I know I do that thing I don't. mean it's just what I grew up with we. all kind of poke each other trust me I. you know what I mean I drink from that.

well exclusively I it's called growing. up with brothers and sisters and we're. always constantly cuffing each other and. all we do is talk at each other. around TR that's family to me that's. family you jump from these moments where. you're telling really funny stories. about these you know uh like hanging out. with Brando and Travolta and like these. great stories but then the next chapter. you'll jump back in time and it's you. it's 4 in the morning and it's your job.

to feed like 75 horses cuz there's a. there's connective tissue there. somewhere and it's not linear because. what is linear it's you know I was say. I'm saying this this morning I was. saying the whole point of the book is. that it's it's this kind. of it's a collected like I love the idea. of groups of people being able to lean. on each other and and and if it's if you. know you don't have the same belief it's. a messy life man it's all over. the place it's all made up of moments. this whole idea of trajectory and like I.

did The Goonies and then I did thrashing. and then I worked with you know then I. did Highway to Heaven Was you know it's. like I yeah okay but what were you. thinking what were you this what was the. messiness how did you become who you are. at this point and then you know what I. mean it's way more interesting to me to. get into the nonlinear kind of reactions. of you have dairo in front of you and. you look at like I don't I'm sure it was. the wine but I was like look at your. face man and he goes what and I was like.

you just got a face look at your. face has anybody ever told you like have. you ever thought about I know you run a. motel or a hotel or whatever it is but. you thought about. acting now did he laugh no and then I. hear Sean go dude shut the. up no he didn't laugh but he was like. yeah what you talking to me yeah. yeah I was like your face the way you're. sitting in that chair is just so kind of. celebrity.

um but why not we're in this you said it. before and it's like and I don't mean to. make it morbit or anything but you said. death wish it was never a Death Wish I. Never Had a death wish it was a vivid. wish right I just wanted things maybe it. was the LSD I took at 13 I don't know. but it was like I just wanted I my mom. was that she just wanted it heightened.