Josh Brolin is on the move. He's sold his house in Malibu and is preparing to relocate up the California coast to Santa Barbara, where he spent his teenage years. The reason that's odd is that the 56-year-old actor's home near Point Dume was recently profiled in The New York Times Style Magazine. The article details how Brolin and his wife, Kathryn Boyd Brolin, spent six years remodeling, adding a guest house, placing a vintage Airstream trailer in the driveway and outfitting the place with eclectic furniture and artwork. "The most insane, mindnumbing permit process I could ever imagine" is how he now describes it.
"And there's no place like it," Brolin says. "And we were settled, we're done."
And yet he's moving.
"I've had a really, really good personal run, you know, I feel good about my parenting, I feel good about my marriage, I feel good," he reflects. "So, I knew something was coming."
That something came when he returned from a publicity junket for Dune: Part Two, the sci-fi epic that's the top-grossing movie of the year, with more than $700 million in ticket sales so far. "I came home and my wife said, 'You know, that place that we saw in Santa Barbara that we said no to? I think that we should say yes.'" That was it. "Okay," he said. "Let's do it."
This story is from the July/August 2024 edition of Cigar Aficionado.
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