Josh Brolin shares how his dying grandmother inspired him to stop drinking after 9 stints in jail

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1. > “I woke up on the sidewalk,” Brolin began. “I didn’t know where my car was, and it wasn’t that that was rare. That was just, you know, the 400th time that it happened. It was so normal when I woke up.”

   > While that disorientation was par for the course, the Dune: Part Two actor explained that what made the night notable was his grandmother’s declining health. “My grandmother was on her deathbed,” he said. “I was supposed to have picked up my brother and taken them, because I was the one in the family that put everything together and structured everything and controlled everything.”

   > “My grandmother, who was 99 at the time, picked her head up and looked at me and smiled, and that was it,” Brolin recalled. “I was done. I said, “If this woman could get through 99 years on life’s terms, how dare me?’”

2. Dang, his grandma did 9 stints in the slammer?

3. So am i the only one that would actually start drinking if i did 9 stints in jail?

4. AA is the most mind blowing thing I’ve ever done, and I have done some mind blowing shit. Putting down the bottle is just the very beginning of it. It is truly miraculous and transformative, it’s free, and no matter where in the world you are reading this you can probably walk to a meeting right now.

5. Grandma probably learned a lot while she was inside. Good on her for straightening her life and his out.

6. I guess his role in Old Boy was pure method acting.