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For Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi drama “Dune: Part Two,” Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya are joined by pivotal new characters performed by Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux, Anya Taylor-Pleasure and Austin Butler, who performs the villainous, “psychotic” (as Pugh’s character calls him within the movie) Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
To get into character to play the menacing Feyd-Rautha, Butler – whom audiences know principally from his Oscar-nominated function in “Elvis” – dons extraordinarily pale make-up, black tooth and no hair or eyebrows.
Recalling her first day on set in Budapest, Zendaya advised CNN in a latest interview that arriving to see an in-character Butler filming considered one of his scenes “was fairly jarring.”
The “Euphoria” star added that it was her first time “correctly assembly and attending to know” Butler.
“I used to be like, ‘Properly that is one solution to get to know somebody!’” she stated. “But it surely was additionally humorous as a result of when you get to know Austin, you see that he’s clearly very heat and really variety. From simply 5 seconds in the past, being this terrifying creature, after which being like, ‘Hey, how are you? Good to see you!’”
Chalamet had comparable emotions, saying his response to seeing Butler’s look the primary time was “loopy.”
The “Wonka” actor recalled assembly him in a stunt warehouse to rehearse their struggle scenes, saying he was each nervous and excited to work with Butler, particularly “having to do it in a fairly aggressive approach proper off the bat.”
Ultimately although, Chalamet stated that whereas his struggle sequences with Butler required a variety of work, it turned out nicely.
“(It was) a variety of rehearsal. Plenty of apply in LA, earlier than even getting over to Hungary,” he recalled. “But it surely was a dream.”
In “Dune: Half Two,” – which comes from Warner Bros. Photos, owned by CNN’s father or mother firm Warner Bros. Discovery – Chalamet’s Paul Atreides rises to guide the Fremen folks of the planet Arrakis in opposition to the oppressive Harkonnens, led by the ruthless Baron (Stellan Skarsgård) and his nephews, Glossu Rabban (Dave Bautista) and Butler’s Feyd-Rautha.
“Dune: Half Two” involves theaters on March 1.