February 20, 2024 @ 2:07 PM
In a pivot from his Oscar-nominated representation of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” Austin Butler produced a brand new voice to play the bad royal prince Feyd-Rautha in “Dune: Part Two.”
In the follow up movie to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 hit, Butler uses a hairless cap and wears light skin make-up, and his chilling vocals birth no similarity to the Southern accent it took him as long to craft (and remove) to play Elvis Presley.
“I felt that because he grew up with the Baron, the Baron would be a big influence on him in many ways,” Butler claimed in a cover tale for Home entertainment Weekly released Tuesday. “So then I started thinking about the way that he speaks, and that being linked to the person that you see with the most power from the time that you’re a child, who you do end up emulating in some way.”
Played by Stellan Skarsgård, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is Feyd-Rautha’s uncle. The despotic bad guy outlined the failure of Home Atreides, Paul’s (Timothée Chalamet) family members, in the very first movie. He also has the Emperor (to be represented by Christopher Walken) in his oily clutches.
Butler defined the dark royal prince he depicts as a “psychopath swordmaster mixed with Mick Jagger.” He additionally described the severe problems in which he shot his launching scene as Feyd-Rautha, a series in which the royal prince combats a triad of challengers in a gladiator field to show himself as successor to the Baron in Home Harkonnen.
“It was 110 degrees and so hot,” Butler remembered. “I had the bald cap on, and it was between two soundstages that were just these gray boxes of 200-foot walls and sand. It became like a microwave. There were people passing out from heatstroke. And that was just my first week.”
Butler, that needed to go to the healthcare facility after he covered shooting “Elvis,” accepted one more minute to offer acting his all.
“It really bonds the entire crew,” he claimed. “There’s something so humbling about being in such an uncomfortable environment.”
