Hey, guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one for you this week with Josh Brolin.

What a career he has had from Goonies in 1985 when he was 17 years old all the way up into his latest.

It's the third of the Knives Out movies.

The director and writer Ryan Johnson puts together these incredible whodunit with great cast, great stories.

This one is called Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out mystery.

In it, Josh Brolin plays Mseigneur wicks kind of a shady

pastor leading a small church that's getting smaller by the day i'll let him explain the character

and the story a little more without giving too much away those movies are always so much fun just a

great guy to hang out with we We got together in the basement restaurant

of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, a place he's been coming since the 1980s when it was a little

shadier itself. Now he just likes to come back. It's familiar. He knows the place. He knows the people.

He likes walking around the neighborhood. So we sat down in the restaurant of the Chelsea Hotel and talked through his career.

Of course, his dad is James Brolin, the famous actor, but as you'll hear, Josh had no designs on

becoming an actor.

In fact, he was running around with a crew in the Montecito Santa Barbara, California area

called the Cito Rats. They surfed, they skateboarded. Some of them did

much worse, as you'll hear. And it wasn't until he took a theater class and he realized, oh, this

could be fun. And it's 17. He auditioned for and got that role in the Goonies. Big hit. It's a

classic to this day, but it didn't really launch his career.

It was kind of in the wilderness here for 20-some years. And then a movie in 2007, No Country for Old Men.

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