Josh Brolin is addicted to nicotine and he isn't shy about confessing it. The actor known for playing Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), revealed that he uses "nicotine pouches" 24 hours a day.
Speaking on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Brolin said such was his addiction that he sleeps with the pouches in his mouth. "My wife would hear this in the middle of the night," Brolin shared. Further, he stated, "I don’t even know I’m doing it, I’m asleep. I have a pouch in my lip, and I’m not f***ing lying, 24 hours a day."
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Josh Brolin wrote about his addiction in his new memoir
Brolin has opened up about his struggles with nicotine in his new memoir, From Under the Truck. In the book, he wrote that he switched to using these pouches after giving up chewing tobacco and nicotine lozenges due to side effects. “They (lozenges ) taste like gasoline and they got a punch to them… But I used to keep them up between my gum and my tooth line. I got seven cavities.”
Brolin started keeping his pouches "all over the house" but then feared his six and three-year-old children, whom he shares with his third wife Kathryn Boyd would touch them. "Then I started taking them out and putting them on the bedside table," the 56-year-old added.
The Dune actor also shares two eldest children, Trevor Mansur (36), and Eden (29), with his former wife Alice Adair.
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On work front
Josh Brolin is known for projects like The Goonies and No Country for Old Men. He received an Oscar nomination for Milk, and also appeared in W., True Grit, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Men in Black 3, Oldboy, Inherent Vice, Everest, and Hail, Caesar!
His widespread popularity came when he played Marvel's supervillain Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He has also donned Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018). The ace actor played Gurney Halleck in science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024).