Stephen McKinley Henderson Praises Austin Butler

Depressing information for “Dune” followers almost everywhere: Stephen McKinley Henderson’s Thufir Hawat was reduced from the last variation of “Dune: Part Two.”

Yet in a meeting from August 2023, it’s clear the cherished personality star still had a great deal of enjoyable bringing Residence Atreides’ Mentat back to the display– desert warm and all.

While it appears that his personality endured the activity of “Part One,” little is understood of what supervisor Denis Villeneuve planned for Thufir’s initial “Part Two” story line. Yet from the audio of it, he memorably shared a few of his display time with Austin Butler’s psychotic Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. Performing reverse Butler was the “most fun” Henderson carried the follow up, the star stated.

“What I had the most fun with this last time was working with Austin Butler, who played Elvis recently,” Henderson stated on his university’s “This Is Purdue” podcast in a meeting performed before the SAG-AFTRA strike.

“What a nice person. He’s just the nicest guy and — he and Timmy [Chalamet] — both just wonderful people and they play such nemesis in the film, so it was wonderful to see them off camera. And Austin was so nice to me,” the 74-year-old star stated, exposing that Butler was specifically helpful after he had a “medical emergency” while firing their scenes and needed to “go away.”

“When I came back, and he played a character that was not very happy with me at all, and he was quite chilling, and I was giving him back the looks, but when they say, ‘Cut,’ he would come over and say, ‘Mr. Henderson, are you OK? Can I help you? Can I get you anything?’ He was just so nice.”

“I just so appreciated Austin — a wonderful, wonderful person,” Henderson wrapped up.

The shooting problems were undoubtedly literally requiring for every one of the job’s stars. In a February meeting with Home entertainment Weekly, Butler remembered shooting his initial scene in a desert gladiator field made from 2 soundstages that “became like a microwave” in 110-degree warm.

“There were people passing out from heatstroke. And that was just my first week,” Butler bore in mind, including, “It really bonds the entire crew. There’s something so humbling about being in such an uncomfortable environment.”

Separately talking to EW closer to the movie’s opening, Villeneuve assessed requiring to eliminate some beloveds in the editing and enhancing procedure– consisting of the “most painful” option of reducing Henderson’s Thufir from “Part Two,” in spite of having actually finished shooting.

“He’s a character I absolutely love, but I decided right at the beginning that I was making a Bene Gesserit adaptation. That meant that Mentats are not as present as they should be, but it’s the nature of the adaptation,” Villeneuve stated.

Still, if Henderson’s August meeting is any type of sign, his point of view of Villeneuve continues to be unsullied.

“Denis Villeneuve is a great filmmaker, and the ‘Dune’ fans will not be disappointed in ‘Part Two,’” he informed the podcast. “I can assure you, if you enjoy ‘Part One,’ get ready, because it’s a fabulous, fabulous journey.”

Fingers went across there will certainly be factor sufficient for Thufir to show up in a still-unannounced “Dune: Part Three.”

“Dune: Part Two” remains in movie theaters currently.