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Josh Brolin explains his viral poetry for Dune: Part Two: “I love that there’s a poem that they exploited into the idea that I wanted to sleep with Timothée”

“I love that there’s a poem that they exploited into the idea that I wanted to sleep with Timothée.”

The poems are slippery, open-ended, and full of the actor’s now-signature affection for his co-stars and crewmates, or as Brolin himself puts it: “I was bowled over by my experience in the desert. I love how there’s a back-and-forth between poems that leave a lot of white space on the page versus ones that feel a little bit more like prose poetry. There’s a poem about watching everyone hanging out by the pool at one of the hotels you stay at in Jordan that ends with a description of Javier Bardem as a “Spanish gladiator.” What felt different about coming back together for this project after knowing each other for 13 years now?

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