Josh Brolin wrote poetry about Timothée Chalamet’s cheekbones for his Dune coffee table book

Josh Brolin isn’t the only person writing poetry about Timothée Chalamet, but he is probably the most famous.

This might sound like an unexpected development from the actor who plays lethal warrior Gurney Halleck in Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two, but after filming both sci-fi epics alongside Chalamet, what else was there to do?

In a poem shared with Variety, Brolin called attention to his costars “cheekbones,” “youth-laden eyes,” and “lips of a certain poetry.”

He also wrote that time with the young star prompted him to contemplate mortality: “The way you hold my gaze/makes me fear my own age,” reads one verse. “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.”

Brolin isn’t writing love poetry about his castmate just for the hell of it. Or, at the very least, there’s more to the story. The Dune actor teamed up with cinematographer Greig Fraser to document the behind-the-scenes action of the first two films in their coffee table book, Dune: Exposures.

Accompanied by Fraser’s photography, Brolin used different formats to put his on-set experience into words.

“The writing is very different, tonally,” he said of his work throughout the 172-page book. “Sometimes it’s tongue-in-cheek, sometimes it’s descriptive, sometimes it’s a dialogue and sometimes it’s a poem.”

That particular poem is accompanied with a black-and-white close-up of Chalamet in costume during the shoot.

“He’s a beautiful writer,” Fraser said of his collaborator. “When I read those words next to one of those images, it grows, it makes something more than what those images are by themselves. And when there are words by themselves with no images, then it allows the next image to have context.”

Out Feb. 13, Dune: Exposures will feature an inside look at the making of the film. Not only does this mean more poetry from the literary stylings of Thanos, but a look at the interactions between Brolin, Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, and Christopher Walken. 

The book is available for purchase at Insight Editions.

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