James Brolin on building aeroplanes and wooing Barbra Streisand: ‘When I first saw her I went whoa!’
msn.comLightyear, the latest Toy Story offshoot – except, it turns out, Brolin isn’t allowed to discuss the movie yet. To have the ostensible object of conversation taken off the table would be, in most interviews, something of a disadvantage.
But with Brolin, 81, it is a most fortuitous development because there is so much else to discuss. “This one time, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and my dentist – who had a great Ferrari – and I drove race cars on the track.
Gene was the fastest, but he drove the most cars off the road,” is one typical snatch of conversation from Brolin. “The only airplane I own right now is the one I finished building during the pandemic,” is another.
Who wouldn’t want to spend a day chewing the fat and courgette bread with him?In the UK, Brolin is probably best known for being the father of Josh Brolin and the husband of a little-known singer called Barbra Streisand, and he is more than fine with that, proudly mentioning both within the first 10 minutes of our conversation.
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