He has always lived at full pelt. That’s the Josh Brolin way. For evidence, pick up his extraordinary 2024 memoir From Under The Truck , which packs in an incredible amount of incident: growing up with wild beasts in the house, a bad acid trip, his years running with a California gang called the Cito Rats, the time he got stabbed in Costa Rica, an occasion on which he got drunk and told Robert De Niro, “You got a fucking face.”

On screen, too, there’s no shortage of wild stuff happening; Thanos (whom Brolin zestfully describes as “big, purple, ball-sack-chinned”) hurling a moon at Robert Downey Jr is just the beginning. He’s plundered pirate treasure, played a President, clambered up Everest, survived Juárez and Arrakis. In the recent surprise summer smash Weapons he faces down some

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