More mostlikely than not, you did a double-take when you saw Austin Butler in Dune: Part Two‘s initially trailer. As the badguy Feyd-Rautha in sci-fi legendary, Butler is bald, eyebrow-less, and greatly equipped. The Elvis and Masters of the Air actor likewise put on an additional 25 pounds of muscle for the movie. “When you feel effective,” he stated in Esquire’s mostcurrent cover story, “that’s a excellent sensation.”
But simply who is this odd-looking badguy? Well, in Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is the nephew and beneficiary to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (played by Stellan Skarsgård in 2021’s Dune). Butler even changed his accent for the movie to noise more like Skarsgård—while likewise turning up his character’s vicious and shrewd qualities. Still, audiences shouldn’t be too scared of Butler’s change when Dune: Part Two premieres next month! He might not be rocking a metal wingsuit a la Sting’s Feyd-Rautha David Lynch’s Dune (1984), but Butler stated he’s offering fans a “totally various thing.”
Elsewhere in the cover story, Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve assured that there is still “rock-star sex appeal” to Feyd-Rautha. “I was floored,” he stated. “Austin was at the leading of my list.” Even throughout challenging conditions on set such as unsafe storms, heavy outfits, and “people collapsing” from the hot sun, Butler was excited to get the best variation of Feyd-Rautha on movie. “He firmlyinsisted to stay with me, nextto the electroniccamera, all the method through those days, duetothefactthat he was having too much enjoyable,” the director states. “He didn’t desire to go back to his trailer. I wear’t keepinmind havingactually seen an star having enjoyable like that.”
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