He grew up with an alcoholic dad and without running water or a modern toilet — yet today he’s a billionaire and a Hollywood icon

Growing up, the star lived under the rules of a strict Catholic household. Both he and his older brother had to get up before sunrise to tend to their chores. Running water was a luxury others could afford, but not for our Golden Globe award wining icon. His family lived very modestly in an apartment overlooking a cow pasture.

”My brother and I would schlep the water from the well to the house, and then we would all clean ourselves — first my mother, then my father, then my brother, then me. The water was dirty by the time it was our turn but my brother and I weren’t going to schlep back to the well,” the actor said.

 

Although he later admitted to loving his father, there were definitely some unpleasant things happening in the house. As the actor once put it, disobedience or misbehavior was met with harsh punishment — “the rod was not spared.”

His earliest memory, he says, is crawling into his parents’ bed during a fierce thunderstorm, wedging himself between his mother and father for comfort. Still, he has noted that his father had “no patience for listening or understanding your problems.”