I just tried to forget about it because you’ll go crazy if you start wondering if the phone is going to ring, especially for this job. But yeah, the audition was on tape, and I left it, as I tend to do. I don’t want to mention Star Wars too much, but that’s the truth. So I auditioned with Jina Jay’s casting, who cast me in Star Wars as well. They had flung the net out in their search for certain characters and Kynes was one of them. So I put my audition on tape because I’m based in the U.K. I remember seeing glimpses of it, but I never watched it in its entirety. Dune was only something that I had seen posters of in my childhood.
Well, I get this confused sometimes with my audition, but I didn’t know very much about the film at the time. Pictures and Legendary PicturesĬan you take me through the audition process? Sharon Duncan-Brewster Courtesy of Warner Bros.
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Certain things couldn’t have been brought to it when the last version came out, so 2021 really feels like the correct time, the right time, to make this movie and give it all that it deserved. So I’m getting feedback from fans, younger and older, saying, “Yes, yes, Denis has done it!” And they’re still thinking about not only the spectacle of it and the beauty of it, the cinematography, but also the performances and the technology. Everyone was hoping that this would be the one that really hits the nail on the head and really honors what Frank Herbert had written in that book. That’s what everyone keeps reiterating at least. It is really mind-blowing, and it doesn’t fail to deliver what everyone was hoping for. And this is what I’m hearing from people in Europe and also people here in the U.K. I know things that come close from my childhood, from my younger years they’re the usual suspects when it comes to sci-fi and futuristic films. To be honest with you, I’ve never known anything like it. I am glad to hear it, and I hope that is exactly the effect. She also looks back at her time on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which was also shot by Dune cinematographer Greig Fraser. Kynes in further detail, including her lasting memory from the ornithopter rescue mission and the one drawback of the stillsuits.
1 opening at the domestic box office and Dune: Part Two ‘s announcement, Duncan-Brewster sat down with THR to discuss Dr. So I really do genuinely look forward to seeing what happens next because, oh my gosh, it’s going to be amazing.” If you’re going to go on your way, go on your way in style. I really like the fact that Kynes could be dead, or is dead, and what we’re seeing is something otherworldly. “The wonderful thing about it is that it can mean whatever the audience member wants it to mean. “All I can say is that I don’t know what that is, and I actually haven’t asked the question about it,” Duncan-Brewster says. This was one of my main moments in the film and I was like a little giggly child.”Īt the end of the film, the audience is left with a bit of ambiguity regarding her character as a Kynes-like figure appears to be riding the giant sandworm, Shai-Hulud. It was like being tickled for some reason. There was a metal plate embedded about a meter down underneath the sand, and it vibrated, so I couldn’t stop laughing. “I remember doing loads of reshoots for my hand going down. And with a smile,” Duncan-Brewster shares. What a way to praise your purpose and whoever it is that you serve. No one could ever touch what he did because he’s the wonderful actor that he was.”ĭuncan-Brewster is also opening up about her character’s powerful sendoff after helping Paul Atreides (Chalamet) and Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) flee the Sardaukar. “This was also the one scene that stuck in my head as, ‘You’ve got to get this right, Sharon.’ The one thing I didn’t want to do was try to be a female version of Max. “These are the big boys and girls of Hollywood, and I had all of these scenes where it’s normally just me on my own, standing my own ground and addressing all of these very talented individuals,” Duncan-Brewster tells The Hollywood Reporter. Jessica Henwick on 'The Matrix Resurrections' and Her 'Knives Out 2' Full-Circle Moment Kynes’ introduction scene, Duncan-Brewster put a great deal of pressure on herself since she was not only acting with Atreides and Hollywood royalty (Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin), but she was also following in the footsteps of the late great Max von Sydow, who played Kynes in David Lynch’s Dune (1984). Liet Kynes, a mysterious Imperial ecologist who oversees the transition from House Harkonnen to House Atreides as stewards of Arrakis. In Denis Villeneuve’s latest critically acclaimed sci-fi film, Duncan-Brewster plays Dr. Dune star Sharon Duncan-Brewster is still over the moon about her trip to the planet Arrakis.