Josh Brolin has laid all of his cards out on the table. The Avengers: Endgame actor hinted that his future in show business was riding on the hope that his collaborator lands an Oscar nomination this year.

Josh Brolin certainly has a flare for the dramatics. The actor threatened to “quit acting” if “Dune: Part Two” director Denis Villeneuve doesn’t get nominated for a best director Oscar for the second installment.

While that may sound like an A24 dark comedy waiting to happen, it’s actually Josh Brolin’s reality, as he has threatened to never act again if director Denis Villeneuve doesn’t receive an Oscar nomination for Dune: Part Two.

Part Two.” In an interview with Variety, the actor, who plays Paul Atreides’ combat mentor Gurney Halleck in the sci-fi epic, issued a threat about what he will do if the film’s director Denis Villeneuve once again isn’t nominated for Best Director at the Oscars.

Josh Brolin says he'll retire if Denis Villeneuve doesn't get a Best Director nomination at the Oscars. “If he doesn’t get nominated this year, I’ll quit acting," Brolin told Variety. "It was a better movie than the first one.

There’s a moment in Josh Brolin’s raw, frequently self-eviscerating memoir “From Under the Truck” where the actor, shirtless, shoeless and wandering around Manhattan’s Upper West Side with a crippling hangover,

Villeneuve was nominated for Best Director in the past, for his 2016 sci-fi drama Arrival, which earned one Oscar win, for Best Sound Editing, from a total of eight nominations. D