Josh Brolin Jokes He’s “Super Angry” About ‘Dune 3’: “I Believed I Was the Lead”

Josh Brolin joked that he was “super angry” after hearing details about Dune: Part 3, because he had believed his character, Gurney Halleck, was the lead. He made the remark while discussing Whalefall, a survival thriller in which he plays the father of a young diver swallowed by a sperm whale.

In the interview, Brolin and author Daniel Kraus also discussed how the film portrays the father through his son’s memories, and how seeing Mitt Gardiner on screen helped Kraus understand the character as a flawed person. The article describes Whalefall as an adaptation of Kraus’s 2023 novel, starring Austin Abrams as Jay Gardiner; it also mentions Kraus’s planned adaptation of Angel Down and Brolin’s development of The Fisherman with Miramax.