Josh Brolin is as in style in Hollywood as he’s ever been, with a couple of position within the Marvel universe, an Academy Award nomination below his belt, a latest in style TV sequence wrapped, a comedy hit movie that’s streaming, and the sci-fi epic Dune movies ending with awards season in thoughts. He additionally simply launched his memoir “From Underneath the Truck,” for which he’s doing the publicity rounds.
Brolin has a number of high-profile initiatives on the burner as nicely, however for the second, he’s centered on his hopes for what the subsequent few months will deliver.
In a latest interview with Selection, the actor talked about his disappointment that the Oscars blew it after they didn’t nominated his Dune director Denis Villeneuve for the 2021 half 1 sci-fi epic.
This yr, Villeneuve is within the awards race as soon as once more for overseeing Dune: Half Two, the uncommon sequel that acquired higher evaluations than the unique. Brolin performs Gurney Halleck, a mentor to Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides.
Brolin mentioned of his director and buddy:
“If he doesn’t get nominated this yr, I’ll stop appearing. It was a greater film than the primary one. After I watched it, it felt like my mind was damaged open. It’s masterful, and Denis is one among our grasp filmmakers. If the Academy Awards have any that means in anyway, they’ll acknowledge him.”
That’s so much to placed on the road. However he feels obsessed with Villeneuve’s place within the nominees, and I respect that.
Brolin has wrapped manufacturing on the third movie within the Knives Out saga, titled Wake Up Lifeless Man, and it’s set to hit theatres in 2025. We may even see Brolin seem subsequent yr in Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Operating Man, during which he’ll star reverse Glen Powell, Katy O’Brian, and Lee Tempo.
