Josh Brolin at the ‘Dune: Part Two’ premiere in London.Photo:Gareth Cattermole/Getty
Gareth Cattermole/Getty
Josh Brolintook his daughters to Arrakis when filmingDune: Part Two— well, almost.
On Tuesday, the actor, 56, appeared onGood Morning Americaand chatted about his experience filming the second part of the sci-fi movie. Praising that the cast and crew filmed on location for the scenes that were meant to illustrate the desert on the planet Arrakis, Brolin reveals that he brought his two young kids out with him.
“I love the desert! I brought my family out there, I brought my kids out there. My 3-year-old and my 5-year-old, who were 2 and 4 at the time,” he says.
“We climbed the dunes every day. It was awesome. When you first end up in the desert, you feel so insignificant because we were 2 and a half hours south of Abu Dhabi. So it was a hundred kilometers of nothing but sand.”
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Brolin shares his daughters with wife Kathryn Boyd Brolin, 35.
In May, the star posted a series of adorable photos of his daughterWestlyn Rain’sfirst dance recital on his Instagram Story. In the photos, Westlyn wore a purple, sparkly leotard with fringe and black patent leather shoes.
“So proud of my little girl on her first dance recital 🎉🎉💎💎❤️️,” he wrote across one picture.
Brolin also shared a sweet photo of Westlyn and daughter Chapel with both of their grandfathers. Brolin’s father, James Brolin, 82, carried Chapel while Kathryn’s father, Britt Boyd, held Westlyn. “Grandpa(s) love,” Brolin captioned the photo.
Brolin and Kathryntied the knot in September 2016. The actor also has two adult children — daughterEden, 30, and son Trevor, 35 — from his first marriage to actress Alice Adair.
The wedding also led Brolin to reflect on the experience of watching his older children build lives while still raising his young ones.
“I am so grateful for this time and this place to be able to have this time on,” he wrote. “I have little kids to raise again, entire lives to monitor and be sensitive to.”
“I didn’t grow old and go off to Italy. I stayed and walked my daughter over a grassy countryside to a commitment — a groom with tears falling down his cheeks — and I melted with it, into it,” he wrote.
source: people.com
