Overview
- Brolin, 57, recalled doing roughly 350 auditions as a teenager before securing his first film role in the 1985 adventure The Goonies.
- He made the remark in a conversation with The Running Man costars Glen Powell and Lee Pace, highlighting the era’s rapid-fire audition routine.
- Brolin has previously said he auditioned six times specifically for the role of Brand Walsh in The Goonies.
- Raised in central California by his mother, Jane Cameron Agee, he said he had little exposure to his father James Brolin’s Hollywood world and didn’t grasp what a “big movie” was at the time.
- He recounted laughing from nerves on his first day on set until Steven Spielberg reminded him that delays cost money, a story first reported by People and widely republished by news agencies.