Josh Brolin writes about Timothée Chalamet's lips and eyes in new Dune book

Your face is etched by
adolescence.

Your cheekbones jump towards
what are youth-laden eyes that slide down
a prominent nose and onto lips of a certain poetry.

And the way you hold my gaze
makes me fear my own age

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.

That's a poem penned by Dune star Josh Brolin about his costar Timothée Chalamet, who plays lead character Paul Atreides. Brolin plays warrior-poet Gurney Halleck, emphasis on the "poet."

This and other writings are collected in the new book Dune: Exposures, a new book put out by Insight Editions which also features images from behind the scenes of Dune taken by cinematographer Greig Fraser. “I’ve been writing this book, and there are 95,000 words that I’m cutting down into something edible,” Brolin told Variety.

The A.V. Club did a little sleuthing and determined that Dune: Exposures appears to similar to, or possibly the same, as a small-run book included in a limited special edition of a coffee table book calledThe Art And Soul Of Dune, which was released back in 2021. But that book cost $595 and Dune: Exposures only costs $60. Plus I don't think Brolin's poem about Timothée Chalamet was making the rounds on the internet back then.

It's not all poetry. "Sometimes it’s tongue-in-cheek, sometimes it’s descriptive, sometimes it’s a dialogue and sometimes it’s a poem,” Brolin said before reading another one of his works. “I love haikus.”

"‘Lie down in the light, as fictional characters watch you from afar.’ I love that because it’s pointing out the fact that this is not real, but there’s nothing more real. The light is real, lying down is real, the sand is real, the experience is real, and yet, it’s this great contrasting thing."

Brolin also wrote a poem about Zendaya, who stars as the Fremen warrior Chani. Did he write one about Austin Butler? Dave Bautista? Jason Momoa? Christpher Walken? Florence Pugh? I would read all of those.

Dune: Exposures goes on sale tomorrow, just a few weeks before Dune: Part Two drops in movie theaters.

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