Hollywood star threatens to retire if his $700,000,000 blockbuster is snubbed at Oscars

A large prima of the Dune franchise has warned that he’ll ‘quit acting’ for bully if Denis Villeneuve isn’t recognized astatine the Oscars.

Josh Brolin starred arsenic Gurney Halleck successful the archetypal 2 parts of the sci-fi epic alongside Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya. Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista and Rebecca Ferguson.

Dune: Part Two was released astatine the opening of the year, portion a 3rd movie presently successful development, and a spin-off prequel bid is airing connected HBO Max.

The archetypal movie landed 10 Oscar nominations and Denis was nominated for the champion representation and champion adapted screenplay, but yet missed retired connected both.

At the clip the nods were announced, Josh shared a video connected Instagram slamming the determination to snub him from the champion manager category.

In his caller memoir, From Under the Truck, the Hollywood fable threatened to instrumentality matters into his ain hands if the aforesaid happens again up of adjacent year’s ceremony.

‘If helium doesn’t get nominated this year, I’ll discontinue acting,’ helium vowed, via Variety. ‘It was a amended movie than the archetypal one.

‘When I watched it, it felt similar my encephalon was breached open. It’s masterful, and Denis is 1 of our maestro filmmakers. If the Academy Awards person immoderate meaning whatsoever, they’ll admit him.’

The nominations are announced connected Friday, January 17, up of the ceremonial successful LA connected March 2.

Dune: Part Two raked successful much than $714,000,000 astatine the planetary container bureau and broke records erstwhile it premiered this year, becoming the highest-rated Dune movie ever connected Rotten Tomatoes.

It presently commands a 92% critics score, compared to 83% for the 2021 flick – it was besides heavy praised arsenic ‘exhilarating’, ‘breathlessly exciting’ and ‘nearly intolerable to look distant from’ successful reviews.

Josh has been a staple of Hollywood for decades, having appeared successful American Gangster, Into the Blue, No Country For Old Men and True Grit.

He has taken connected immense roles arsenic George W Bush successful W, Thanos successful the Avengers franchise and popped up connected the tiny surface successful Mister Sterling, 21 Jump Street and the Young Riders.

If helium were to crook his backmost connected acting aft adjacent year’s awards season, helium would beryllium doing truthful connected a immense vocation precocious arsenic helium has landed a coveted relation successful Wake Up Dead Man, Rian Johnson’s eagerly-anticipated follow-up to Knives Out and Glass Onion.

‘I work it and I was like, “This is truthful elevated,”’ helium said of the script. ‘This penning is supreme. And I got scared. I was like, “I don’t cognize if I’m bully capable to bash this. I don’t cognize if I tin represent each these subtleties successful a mode that’s integrated and authentic.”

‘But I prepped a batch and got acceptable for it. That would person each looked precise antithetic had I been drinking. I don’t cognize if I could person done it.’

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