SNL Recap: Josh Brolin Recites Original Poem About Timothee Chalamet

Josh Brolin clearly thinks his Dune 2 costar Timothée Chalamet makes the right poetry inspiration.

“I’ve been directing [and] I’ve been writing a lot. I wrote an apparently super creepy poem about Timothée Chalamet,” Brolin, 56, quipped in his Saturday Night Live monologue on Saturday, March 9. “I don’t think it’s creepy, but you be the judge!”

Instead of constant with extra jokes about his profession and previous SNL expertise, Brolin used his remaining time to recite the poem about Chalamet, 28.

“Your face is etched by adolescence,” Brolin started in a callback to Chalamet’s 2023 SNL monologue rap about having a child face. “Your cheekbones jut toward, what are youth-laden eyes that slide down a prominent nose and onto lips of a certain poetry.”

Brolin additional admitted that his verse was “weird” in hindsight.

Josh Brolin Jokingly Shares Super Creepy Poem He Wrote About Dune 2 Costar Timothee Chalamet — Josh Brolin Rosalind O’Connor/NBC

“But, no, I don’t want to sleep with him,” the Marvel actor asserted on Saturday. “But, that’s what I do! I write poems about everyone I work with. Like this week, I wrote a poem about Kenan [Thompson]. Remember, we were rehearsing a sketch and I was looking at you, your face and I just got inspired.”

Brolin then shared his fictional poem about long-running SNL solid member Thompson, 45.

“I look at you with your ageless face and slide down furrowed brow onto sultry eyes,” Brolin learn aloud. “Then, jumping off under your sugar cookie cheeks onto the divets of your laugh lines awakens in me a symphony of desire, to which I can only say, ‘What up with that?’”

Thompson, in the meantime, stood on the sidelines of the SNL stage with a glass of white wine. “Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool,” he replied with a shocked look on his face earlier than strolling away. (“What up with that?” is considered one of Thompson’s standard SNL catchphrases.)

Brolin didn’t let Thompson’s response faze him for the rest of his monologue.

“Anywho, I write a lot,” Brolin harassed. “I even have a book coming out later this year called From Under the Truck. That whole book is about Kenan.”

Brolin’s writing passions first made headlines final month when he launched a Dune: Exposures ebook of poems about his time on the set of the movie. (Brolin and Chalamet each starred within the 2021 movie and reprised their roles within the March 2024 sequel.) After the ebook’s launch, the web speculated that the poems have been penned particularly about costar Chalamet.

“That’s gotten out of control,” Brolin joked throughout a February look on Good Morning America. “You know what, when you’re an older actor, OK, and you’re looking at new, great younger talent, I get excited.”

Brolin famous on the time that he was impressed by Chalamet, Zendaya and Florence Pugh’s “hard work” on the set. “So I’m sitting there writing, and I don’t have a scene that day,” he added. “And I’m writing these nice things, and then the internet grabs a hold of it and thinks I want to make out with Timothée or whatever.”