Josh Brolin reveals dad James slaughtered his childhood pet PIG and made him eat it

Josh Brolin revealed his father James Brolin once slaughtered his childhood pet pig and fed it to him.

Josh, now 56, who is the son of actor James, 84, and the late Jane Cameron Agee, and recounted the harrowing tale on the Graham Bensinger’s In Depth podcast – saying his dad had fed him delicious ribs before revealing it was, in fact, his pet.

Branding his father – who is married to screen icon and known animal lover Barbra Streisand – a ‘f*****g d**k’ for first telling the story, Josh said: ‘So this story of me raising pigs, this is a horrible story. 

‘Oink and Snort, those were their names. I helped raise these pigs, and then we’re eating dinner one night — it’s amazing to me that he would tell you that story. It makes him look so bad.”

‘But he said, “Guess what you’re eating? […] Either Oink or Snort. Yeah, that’s what we’re eating. That’s who we slaughtered.’

Josh said he wondered why a dad would say this to their child ‘with any semblance of celebration.’ 

Josh, now 56, who is the son of actor James, 84, and the late Jane Cameron Agee, and recounted the harrowing tale on the Graham Bensinger’s In Depth podcast – saying his dad had fed him delicious ribs before revealing it was, in fact, his pet – pictured 1971

‘I think he was making to look an impact. Psychologically? On camera? In front of you? I mean, I could get into it.

‘When you feel like you don’t have an impact, that’s when you start to look for any impact, whether it’s a negative impact or not.

‘I think I can break it down to it being that, because I can’t imagine saying that to my kid. It’s nowhere in my universe to say that to a kid. Why would you?

‘My dad’s an interesting guy in that he’s super friendly, but there’s a stop sign. It’s like, before you get on the freeway, there’s a red light. You’re ready to go. You’re ready to get on the freeway and go 65, 75 miles an hour, and the light never turns.

‘So you’re sitting there like this and you’re like, ‘It’s presented to me that I’m gonna go.’ And then the stoplight never changes — it just stays perpetually red.’

The revelation is doubly shocking as Brolin’s wife of 26 years Streisand, 82, is a devoted animal owner and even cloned her Coton de Tulear dog Samantha twice.

Back in 2018 Streisand shocked when she revealed she had cloned Samantha, who died in 2017.

Before Samantha died, cells from her mouth and stomach were extracted and used in the cloning process she told Variety in a 2018 interview.

Branding his father – who is married to screen icon and known animal lover Barbra Streisand – a ‘f*****g d**k’ for first telling the story, Josh said: ‘So this story of me raising pigs, this is a horrible story’

‘But he said, “Guess what you’re eating? […] Either Oink or Snort. Yeah, that’s what we’re eating. That’s who we slaughtered’ – Josh pictured last month

Josh said he wondered why a dad would say this to their child ‘with any semblance of celebration’ – pictured as a baby in 1969

They have different personalities,’ Streisand told Variety. ‘I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [Samantha’s] brown eyes and seriousness.’

Barbra has to dress the two dogs in red and purple to tell them apart.

While waiting for her cloned puppies, the Broadway star adopted Miss Fanny—a distant cousin of Samantha.

To no surprise, cloning an animal isn’t cheap. The cost can range anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000.

Back in November, Barbra discussed the death of her beloved pooch in an interview with the Associated Press.

‘She was always with me,’ she said. ‘The last 14 years she went everywhere I went. She was at every performance. It was like losing a child. It was kind of awful.’