Josh Brolin shares late mom Jane’s unusual interactions with exotic animals

Josh Brolin recalled his late mom Jane Cameron Agee’s rare animal wrangling prowess.

In a recent chat on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the 56-year-old actor talked about his wildlife activist mom’s surprising way of wrangling a gorilla in front of him and his brother when they were younger.

It is pertinent to mention that Jane used to work as a wildlife activist for California’s Department of Fish and Game at the time.

Recalling the day Brolin said that he and his younger brother went to a place with Jane where a gorilla was kept and his mom confidently rushed to the wild animal even though the authority warned her, “He’s hurt other animals.”

“The gorilla pumps his chest and does all of that kind of masculine showmanship,” the actor noted. “And my mom goes, ‘Stop it,’ and the gorilla literally in the midst of doing this goes ‘huh?’”

The Avengers: Endgame star went on to say, “This is the God’s honest truth, man. And there’s a truck over there and they open this slide thing, this entrance into the back of the truck, and she goes, ‘You get in there right now…’ [The gorilla] went from [being aggressive] to like watching her in a totally confused [way] and all that.”

“She was a severe woman, she was a force of nature. She couldn’t drive any less than 100 miles an hour. Everything that she did was big,” he gushed.