Dune: Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem on How Film Is More Relevant Now Than When First Published

With director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune now playing around the world and streaming for free on HBO Max, I recently got to speak with Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem about making the incredible movie. During the interview, Brolin and Bardem talked about what people would be surprised to learn about the making of Dune, if they think the story is more relevant now than when it was first published, when they realized they were part of a special film, and more. Dune is based on the hugely influential sci-fi novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. In the film, we follow Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, whose family inherits custody over the planet Arrakis (or the titular “Dune“), an unforgiving desert world that also hosts the only source of something known as melange, or “spice,“ the most valuable material in the known universe. Meanwhile, a plot is brewing against the Atreides from a rival family known as the Harkonnens, and the fate of Dune is eventually at stake, but Paul