James Brolin on love of work, and love of Barbra

every woman's hope for fulfillment and happiness is a marriage a satisfying a beautiful marriage you want 66 more yeah i'll see you fantabulous scooby scooby-doo i'm sorry nearly 60 years after his big screen debut in the sandra d comedy take her she's mine actor james brolin is still going strong he's in conversation with our tracy smith how much time do you spend out here you guys um we visit a lot okay you really have to see this place to believe it with the custom-made milhouse and the oh so perfect pond it looks like some kind of movie set but it's really james brolin's malibu backyard oh this is heaven he says most of the credit goes to his wife of 23 years barbara streisand all of the flowers around are in that exact spot because they have to be she designed pretty much everything me i just work here excuse me are you a doctor and you might say this is his other job something extraordinary sweet tooth is the netflix series about a post-apocalyptic world of hybrid animal people and a terrifying pandemic by his 10th winter the boy was now the man of the house brolin is the show's narrator a calmly reassuring voice when everything seems to be going to hell but it took him a while to get it right the first day of any job i'm got what they call the kali wobbles the collie wobbles yeah yeah just not sure i like these people i'm not sure if i should have taken this job where are we you know i got a plane ticket somewhere second day piece of cake then you're in yeah seems he's been in for most of his life you might recall that james brolin came to fame as the dashing dr stephen kiley opposite robert young in tv's marcus welby md well if she's old enough to die then i'm old enough to tell her so brolin did well on welby so well in fact that he earned an emmy and that was just for the pilot so how did life change by the sixth show we were number one and we stayed there all year life changed i got a better dressing room and there'd be better dressing rooms to come you belong here at the saint gregory in series like hotel where he starred and directed and in movies like 1979's the amityville horror i'm coming apart oh mother of god i'm coming apart but then there's the one that got away [Music] a lot of people may not know that james brolin was almost james bond how close did you get i had the job i literally uh roger moore said he wasn't gonna do any more so he did some screen tests hello even learned a james bond move or two but after that nothing hello you're still there well i had a little trouble with the line we heard through someone else that uh roger had decided to do one more that was octopussy by the way and uh yeah it could have been fun you know what do you tell yourself when things like that happen yeah stuff happens and life happens too brolin has three children his eldest son josh was born in 1968. this is my war not his and in his case the apple didn't fall too far from the tree has your father ever personally offered you advice on iraq no i haven't asked i don't need to the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength you know there's a higher father i appeal to what is it like for you as a dad to see the success that he's had well it's great but if he didn't have any success it would be the same to me you know so do you get out in the water i do but not with a board anymore the elder brolin is 81 now no really he's also a highly qualified pilot and a former pro race car driver he doesn't get out on the race track much anymore but he's still more active than some people half his age you just bought a skateboard yeah god bless my daughter's a big skateboarder and he's the first to admit that meeting his wife was the best thing that ever happened to him you've been married 23 years what's the key to a long marriage negotiation i think kindness usually a referee is good which means a marriage counselor or somebody that you know that comes over and talks and has you talk and has you talk and we've done well at that in public the two sometimes look like love struck teenagers but he says it's been that way since they were first dating i went off to a location in the philippines and i would call her and this was before cell phones i think i spent every nickel ice i made on this movie because we would be on from three to five hours on the phone three to five hours phone calls yeah five dollars a minute from the philippines oh my goodness what were you talking about just teenage crap is that how you felt it was like a teenager yeah i could i almost feel her lying on her bed on her stomach with her feet up you know how teenage girls do anyway so when i got home we were we felt quite close by then you know i do kind of feel like i'm in the movies sitting here yeah well you're not it's all too real and talk about real along with sweet tooth brolin has three new projects on the way and a sense that maybe his best work is still ahead do you think about legacy no i don't actually no what i got to do is still going to happen if it does in other words i haven't done the thing that makes legacies yet and i may never bet you just may i'm open and optimistic about everything always and but i feel like i've there's part of me that's been also ran you know all these horses are running and there's the winner and then there's the also ran or they almost made it you know there's a part of you that feels there's a part of me that yeah yeah still feels that that i've got something to do or i didn't do something or even maybe the bond thing if that happened something might have changed is from that one film you know but don't mistake his wistfulness for regret james brolin loves what he does and just wants to do more i never felt like i'm ready to move on to the next best thing my favorite days have been at work other than the days my kids were born or the days i was married every day at work has been just gold to me what does that do for your soul what is it it makes me miss it right now here we are talking wasting time

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Length: 7min 57sec (477 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021