Josh Brolin speaks to the New Yorker on the occasion of his new memoir, and reflects on some of his formative reading experiences.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce When I was twenty, I did a play in New York where I was an Irish priest. For research, I flew to Dublin, where I basically lived in shitty places and looked for priests to talk to. I didn’t know what to read, but, when I went into the bookstore, there was Joyce. I didn’t have a literary family. My mother read a lot, but she read horror books. “Portrait” is an example of a book that turned me onto a new world. It sort of slapped me.
So how are you any different than I am? I got in trouble a lot when I was younger, and I think part of the reason the book struck me so much is because it’s about somebody living a life that maybe exists in me, or would exist if I grew up in a different place and different time. Maybe that’s why I became an actor—to explore different aspects of myself. With a character like this, you go, ‘Yeah, there’s nothing about him that I can identify with.
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