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Being an actor is easy if you had to face exotic wildlife as a child. Josh Brolin grew up with a mother who worked as a wildlife rehabilitator, aka someone who rehabilitates animals to be released into the wild or safely rehomed to an accredited zoo with the California Department of Fish and Game. He told Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson during the latest episode of Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast that an employee named Bud was almost eaten by a lion at their family ranch, where they rehabilitated some of the wildlife. “She told him, ‘Look, he’s not eating. You have to go in there and show him how to eat. You have to sit next to him and show him. Put your face in the bowl and show him; he needs…
