Austin Butler did not need to copy Sting and put on winged underwear enjoying Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in ‘Dune: Part Two’.
The ‘Elvis’ star performs the “psychotic” character in Denis Villeneuve’s second movie of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel ‘Dune’ by Frank Herbert, and as a lot as he liked the previous Police frontman’s leather-like trunks in David Lynch’s 1984 film, he wished to do one thing totally different.
Feyd-Rautha is Baron Vladimir Harkonnen’s (Stellan Skarsgård) youngest nephew and deliberate successor of House Harkonnen.
In an interview with Total Film journal, Austin stated of introduction to the menacing character: “Denis described him to me as having a psychotic nature, but yet there’s something sort of seductive about him as well. And he’s hungry for power. I started thinking: well, how did he grow up? What would his voice sound like? How would he breathe? How would he move? That was the real fun, where you start filling in all those details, and putting meat on the bone.”
The former Disney star, 32, stated he could not spend too lengthy in character, like he did when inhabited the late King of Rock and Roll, as a result of it isn’t a “healthy” place to be.
He defined: “With Feyd, I didn’t think it would be healthy to live in that head-space 24 hours a day.
So l created rituals around it in the hair and make-up chair where I could start shifting my mind over. That allowed more freedom to feel that I could go further in the film, because I knew that it wasn’t going to get out of hand. Once you know that, then it’s so much fun, because he’s so different from me. There’s a challenge in that, but there’s something liberating about immersing yourself in this other way of being. There were possibilities that don’t exist with other characters that were very fun to explore.”
Asked if he requested the winged pants, he replied: “I think he did them so much justice that I had to do something completely of my own [laughs]. How do you follow that? I think he looks great in them… I love that movie, and I love Sting as a musician and as an actor. I feel honoured to be embodying this role that he had the opportunity to.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
