Josh Brolin Remembers His First Appearance On Conan’s Show | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hi my name is Josh Brolin and I. feel so don cheetle about being on. [Laughter]. con's you know what you came in with. this Don cheetle energy today wasn't. that the first thing I said bad the. first thing I said is it's a little. cheet first thing I said is I said I'm. getting a little cheetle here I'm. getting a little cheetal from Josh. broland that's what I said I don't even. know what that means what does it mean. uh who knows badass horny you feel horny.

nice no I don't feel horny I do feel I. think you're excited to see me I am. excited I'm really excited there's one. thing is you and I she just told me that. the first time I went on your show was. for Flirting With Disaster yep and I. think you know which I'm much less. nervous now I still get nervous but not. really I don't care as much now yep but. back then I told a story about how my. dad's so goodlooking that I told him I. wanted to have sex with him or something. like that and no nobody got.

it I still think it's funny it is funny. it is funny cuz it's your dad and like. of course you don't want to have sex. with your dad and somebody that's that. goodlooking even the son would want to. have sex with him every angle I look at. it from it's still. funny and literally you and I were like. you went and I looked out and everybody. was like yeah like nothing you know it. was a different time it it was a. different time and you were way ahead of. the curve that wasn't on you that was on.

that audience that night that was a bad. audience I remember them or they. didn't give a what I had to say I. uh I'm going to start because I have to. say this right away and I address my. cohorts here Mr brolan here Josh brolan. has written a book and I told him this. back stage and I want to say it right. here right now many celebrities write a. book or known people write a book and. you look at it and you go okay they. cranked this out this is a beautiful. book this is a really beautiful book it. what are you doing I'm just video.

recording it we're recording this the. whole time he has a YouTube channel no I. don't I won't use this for anybody other. than my own ego okay there you go um. this is a gorgeous book and it's really. powerful and it is brilliantly written. and I read this thing and I I thought. there was so much in it that I did not. know about you it's fantastic it's great. and it's called Uh Josh band A Memoir. from under the truck I didn't know all.

this stuff about you and you jump around. in time you talk a lot about the. different experiences you had on. different projects and there's a lot to. talk about here but the thread that runs. through this whole thing is your mom yep. and it is very powerful stuff man is she. a character she is a character and she. was a character is a character continues. to be a character it's so interesting. because one of my favorite movies of all. time and I think I've probably told you. this hundreds of times odd naian but uh.

No Country for Old Men is one of my. all-time favorite movies and your. performance in it and uh Javier's uh. performance in it incred um but I. watched that movie again and again and. again and Marvel at it and this what I. never realized is that your character. Luellen is much closer to you and the. way you grew up than I ever knew new.

which is FAS what way in what way did. you mean well you grow up I mean Oh you. mean Ranch and all that kind of stuff. you yeah first of all your life and. there's so many passages in this book. where you're um taking care of animals. you're living on a ranch you're living. in this incredibly rural environment. you've got this life that was much. manlier than anything I've ever. experienced I'm sorry I had a butterfly. neck.

occasionally I'd go outside with my. butterfly. neck and then my mother would say get. back inside the sun's. out. so your mom let's talk about your mom. because she's runs through this book and. uh she died very tragically I believe. 1995 is when you lost your. mom but she jumps off the page in this.

book because and it's very. unconventional she's not a conventional. mom in any way you guys are drinking. buddies pretty much at an early age yeah. I think I say it in one of the if you. you know chapters if you will which we. decided at the toward the tail end of. this to put in chapters to make it. followable or just you know stories that. you could kind of note and go back to. but there's one that said I was I can't. remember exactly what it says but it it. says something something like I.

was created in her kind of uh likeness. to be a drinker do you know what I mean. so it was like it was kind of like a. surrogate husband so to speak my dad was. you know extremely they got married in. 12 days after 7 days I think after five. no it was 7 days they sat down they had. a scorpion drink one of those massive. cups between them my dad was reeling. from a from a recent break wake up and.

my mom with her voice at Texan voice. they were you know drinking it up and. she looked up and she goes well and my. dad's like yeah and he she goes are we. we going to do it or what he was like do. what and she said get married are we. going to just are we going to do it or. what and he got so kind of you know. perplexed and confused and nervous that. he just said yeah I guess and she said. Okay and she started planning it at that. moment wow and 5 days days later they.

were married of course your dad very. well-known actor James Brolin and super. handsome super. handsome I mean I'd. him yes full circle full circle I. have you're not supposed to talk about. it um he said it was okay but it's it's. interesting because. because we live in this era where people. talk about nepo and oh you're the you're.

the child that's like the new thing yeah. that's the new thing I'm saying that oh. you're the child of celebrity you read. this book your dad and you're like where. the is the celebrity yeah your your. dad is not kind of the point your dad. kind of is is not really in the picture. that much he's very peripheral your mom. you say um my childhood was on a leash. of the whims of my mother and uh and.

that you were sort of told to be you're. you're going to be the man of the house. even though you're a little kid and. didn't matter to her yeah and then you. live this life that is completely. different I mean uh you are on a ranch. there's like 22s rifles there's I mean. the the the life you're living is not. that of a kid who's growing up in any. kind of privilege yeah but that's the. whole thing and that's the thing that. you know either either people are really.

interested in or they're not interested. in to me I know that I fought the idea. of celebrity my whole life even though I. didn't grow up in La everybody thinks I. grew up in Malibu I didn't grow up in. Malibu and then you you imagine what. happens on a set and you think it's this. Perpetual red carpet and you're just. waving literally your entire life y do. you know what I mean there is a. perception of I was just on the on the. phone with my lit agent um Kimberly. Witherspoon this morning and and and I. was like I'm I'm spinning I'm spinning. like you saw me I felt it get.

uncomfortable when you said those nice. things about the book I got te you know. I got this means the world to me because. it's me being naked about the realities. of the life that I've lived and the life. of a lot of other celebrities that I. know you know there's no and it's not. that it's looking for compassion it's. not but there's no compassion in that. there's no just like oh you you guys. have the same problems no you don't you. live in a bubble you all live under the. same apartment complex and you just go.

what what what are you thinking right. right what are you thinking what about. the life of this kind of unconventional. life of this guy who was germinated. unbeknown to anybody that it was going. to be this into an artist who just found. creativity as an outlet got attached to. it the self-destructive part of him grew. and grew and grew with it and then. somehow through having kids and all that. found his way out of the. self-destruction.