'ransom Canyon' Star James Brolin Says Son Was Basically Raised As A 'cowhand'

James Brolin has been surviving nan ranch life for years, joking that his son, Josh Brolin, was "basically raised arsenic a cowhand."

The "Ransom Canyon" character told Fox News Digital that he wasn’t raised connected a farm, but increasing up he was a immense instrumentality of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and arsenic an big he sewage his first horse. 

It was a erstwhile Palomino parade equine that he bought astatine auction for $235 "that was almost dead," but Brolin quickly realized he had obscurity to put nan animal, truthful it had to slumber successful his car shed for nan first night.  

"And it started slipping around," he said. "And truthful nan adjacent time I recovered a location to rent that had a corral and everything. And nan adjacent point I knew, I bought a spot pinch six acres and had six horses connected it."

James Brolin has been surviving nan ranch life for years, joking that his boy Josh Brolin was "basically raised arsenic a cowhand." (Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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By nan 2nd twelvemonth of his 1967-1976 bid "Marcus Welby, M.D.," Brolin said he moved to a 270-acre ranch successful Central California, 4 hours northbound of wherever nan show was changeable astatine Universal Studios successful Los Angeles. 

"I was a four-hour thrust distant from work," he said, "but I did it, and I loved that life. "And Josh was raised arsenic a cowhand, really," he said of his 57-year-old actor-son. 

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"I loved that life. And Josh was raised arsenic a cowhand, really."

Brolin said erstwhile Universal recovered retired he had moved distant from L.A., they gave him a small location to unrecorded successful connected nan batch while he was connected set.

"They said we're gonna fto you usage this for now, but we're besides putting your activity into 3 days aliases 4 days a week, truthful you tin beryllium home," he explained, adding that to him, nan ranch was "so perfect, I couldn't hold to get there."

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James Brolin, pinch first woman Jane Cameron Agee, holds a young Josh Brolin.  (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

The 84-year-old is successful acquainted territory pinch his caller Netflix show "Ransom Canyon," a Western that has been compared to "Yellowstone" astir 3 Texas ranching dynasties. 

Brolin said he plays a drunk who spews "profanities" who is angry "at nan world astir losing a boy and wife." 

The seasoned character said he’s heard from group that they consciousness his characteristic Cap Fuller’s "pain, his crustiness."

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Brolin wanted to make nan characteristic "so existent that group can't hold till nan adjacent segment he's in," he told Fox News Digital, adding, "and I deliberation I benignant of sewage there."

Brolin astatine his ranch pinch his first woman successful 1970. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

The bid was changeable successful Santa Fe, New Mexico, which he said is "not my wife's style, but man, I tin unrecorded there." 

Brolin besides praised his "No Country for Old Men" actor-son arsenic nan "most attentive begetter I've ever seen."

Josh shares 2 children — Trevor, 36, and Eden, 31 — pinch his first wife, Alice Adair, and 2 children — Westlyn, 6, and Chapel, 4 — pinch his existent wife, Kathryn Boyd. 

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Along pinch Josh and girl Jess, 53, from his first matrimony to precocious character Jane Cameron Agee, Brolin besides shares a daughter, Molly, 37, from his 2nd matrimony to erstwhile character Jan Smithers.

James Brolin stars successful Netflix's deed show "Ransom Canyon," which was changeable successful New Mexico. (Anna Kooris/Netflix)

"In our business, you're not ever there," Brolin admitted. "I'm amazed connected really good [Josh is] there. And I envy him successful a measurement that I wasn't much for illustration that — kids are first, activity is second. And he makes judge that his bosses cognize that earlier he takes nan job." 

Brolin said he did his champion to put his kids first arsenic good erstwhile they were increasing up, and during nan 3 to 4 days a week astatine nan ranch he "really attended pinch my kids and took them connected camping trips and things for illustration that." 

Brolin said he besides adores his 2 youngest granddaughters. 

"It's a awesome clip of life, and they whitethorn beryllium a small spoiled, but man, what a family and what nosy they have," he said. 

James Brolin and Barbra Streisand person been joined since 1998. (Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images)

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Brolin has been joined to legendary vocalist and character Barbra Streisand since 1998. 

"You believe connected nan first ones," Brolin laughed erstwhile asked astir his long-lasting marriage to nan "Funny Girl" star. "That's a joke, but possibly not."

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"It's being capable to cognize erstwhile to return a locomotion outside, you know, don't enactment successful nan heat," he said of marriage. "Don't effort and triumph nan argument… The world is nary one's fault. It's conscionable nan measurement it is. And sometimes if you conscionable return a breather from each other, and I don't mean disconnected nan problem, I mean conscionable going extracurricular and stepping astir nan pool, and loving quality and stepping backmost successful and making like, ‘Oh, that was a weird small argument.’"

James Brolin pinch son, Josh Brolin, and wife, Barbra Streisand, successful 2010. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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He besides suggested therapy for an "ongoing problem."

"It’s bully to beryllium down and talk astir it," said Brolin. "And it's really bully to beryllium down possibly pinch a pro who plays referee. And past you some extremity up successful tears, and it conscionable goes ‘poof.’ It's an astonishing thing."