Austin Butler weighs in on 'Dune: Part 2' filming challenges: ‘uncomfortable environment’
Austin Butler played the role of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in 'Dune: Part 2'
Austin Butler has opened up about the challenges he and his cast faced, during the filming of his hit movie Dune: Part 2.
The Elvis star who portrayed the role Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the epic sci-fi franchise highlighted the details of struggles his cast and crew faced due to heat stroke.
While conversing with Entertainment Weekly, Butler shared, “It was 110 degrees and so hot. I had the bald cap on, and it was between two soundstages that were just gray boxes of 200-foot walls and sand. It became like a microwave. There were people passing out from heat stroke. And that was just my first week.”
The 32-year-old went on to say, "It really bonds the entire crew. There's something so humbling about being in such an uncomfortable environment."
In the initial scene of Butler for Dune 2, he as Feyd-Rautha’s gladiator played the gladiator match on the Harkonnens home planet, he showed himself as his uncle heir.
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For this shot, The Bikeriders star was vigilant to Skarsgård’s vocal performance, he shared, ““I felt that because he grew up with the Baron, the Baron would be a big influence on him in many ways.”
Austin Butler said, “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.”