Josh Brolin’s poems to Dune 2 cast continue to break the internet
Warner Bros. PicturesJosh Brolin’s emotional poems to his Dune 2 cast mates have taken the internet by storm ahead of the film’s premiere.
The hype around Dune: Part Two, the epic follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 sci-fi epic, is set to hit theaters soon and fans couldn’t be more excited.
Dune 2’s cast is absolutely stacked with Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, and Zendaya reprising their original roles, and newcomers Florence Pugh and Austin Butler marking their debuts in the franchise.
Despite rumors that the cast don’t get along off-screen, it seems like at least one Dune 2 cast member has nothing but love his co-workers as two of Brolin’s emotional poems for Chalamet and Pugh have gone viral.
Brolin pens beautiful poems to Dune 2 cast mates
The first time poem to take fans by storm was one Brolin wrote specifically to Chalamet, who plays the film’s lead Paul Atreides.
Brolin, who plays Paul’s mentor and former House Atreides military leader Gurney Halleck, waxed poetically about how youthful Chalamet is and how his youthful energy on set seems to “frighten” him.
“And the way you hold my gaze makes me fear my own age,” Brolin wrote, “Because something in me tells me you are going to offer me something and, for now, I’m not sure it’s going to be something I want anymore.”
While fans had a few mixed reactions to his poem, with some comparing the work to Taylor Swift’s upcoming album The Tortured Poets Department, no one could have predicted that Brolin would have more emotionally intense poems for fans to read.
His latest one is centered around Pugh, who plays Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV’s daughter Princess Irulan, which is something he references often throughout her poem.
“She lies down between shots, splayed in her princess regalia,” Brolin recalled, “We are all tired, but she lies there without worry and her composure is one of easy royalty.”
The actor also compared Pugh to Marilyn Monroe and how, like Monroe, one could “feel her cells preparing for thinner air, a higher ground: her talent becomes her.”
Naturally, Dune fans were completely taken away by Brolin’s admiration of Pugh, with many making jokes that he spent his time on set giggling and kicking his feet while writing these poems.
Poetry isn’t the only thing Brolin was doing in between sets. The poems are part of the novel Dune: Exposures, which Brolin worked on with the film’s cinematographer Greig Fraser.
The book is a way for fans to get an inside look at the making of Dune: Part One and Two with Fraser providing intimate pictures of the cast and crew alongside Brolin’s incredibly poignant writing. Although he did occasionally step behind the camera for a few portraits of his fellow cast members.