He’s not just a tough guy. He’s got vigor, charm, and a singular blend of resilience that reels us in again and again.
As Josh Brolin returns to the big and small screens in Dune: Part Two and Season 2 of the western series Outer Range, one thing is clear: Audiences want more of what he’s got.
Josh Brolin still remembers his initial reaction when he read the pilot script for Outer Range. It registered somewhere between “Oh, wow!” and “What the hell?”
“But ‘What the hell’ is a good thing for me,” Brolin told me shortly before the show’s Season 1 premiere. “‘What the hell’ is never a bad thing for me. It’s like, I remember my father seeing Inception. I was so jazzed up by it, and I told him about it, so then he went to the movie theater to see it for himself. And then he called me and basically said just that: ‘What the hell?’”
Pausing to chuckle, Brolin added: “Except he didn’t say ‘hell.’”
Even so, the sheer wall-to-wall weirdness of , a series best described as meets to hang around with , was downright irresistible to Brolin. In the series, which returns for Season 2 this spring on Prime Video, he’s cast as Royal Abbott, a Wyoming rancher who already had a lot on his plate at the start of Season 1 — the disappearance of his daughter-in-law, the machinations of a wealthy neighbor with designs on his land, an inconvenient manslaughter that could implicate one of his adult sons—when a mysterious black void, hole, doorway or whatever, suddenly appeared in his west pasture. When someone pushed him into that gaping chasm, complications arose. And when he emerged, things really got
