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Dune: Prophecy star Olivia Williams says sequence is the primary time she has felt assured her scenes wouldn’t be reduce

By Editorial Board Published November 19, 2024 5 Min Read
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Dune: Prophecy star Olivia Williams says sequence is the primary time she has felt assured her scenes wouldn’t be reduce

British actress Olivia Williams has mentioned that in additional than 30 years of performing on display screen, starring in Dune: Prophecy is the primary time she has felt assured her scenes wouldn’t be reduce from a venture.

Williams, who has appeared in movies together with The Sixth Sense, Rushmore and An Training, and portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles, earlier than she grew to become Queen, within the last two seasons of The Crown, can now be seen within the TV prequel to the blockbuster Denis Villeneuve movies.

She stars alongside her shut good friend Emily Watson, with the pair enjoying the Harkonnen sisters – two girls combating forces that threaten the way forward for humankind.

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Emily Watson and Olivia Williams star collectively in Dune: Prophecy. Pic: Sky Atlantic/ HBO

Primarily based on the Dune and Sisterhood of Dune novels, the Sky Atlantic present is ready 10,000 years earlier than the beginning of Timothee Chalamet’s character, Paul Atreides, within the movies, and follows the 2 girls as they discovered the fabled sisterhood that may later change into often called the Bene Gesserit.

Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya in Dune: Part Two. Pic: Warner Bros. Pictures

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The sequence is a prequel to the Dune movies, which star Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya. Pic: Warner Bros. Photos

Regardless of figuring out one another for 30 years, and even working on the Royal Shakespeare Firm (RSC) on the identical time, the present marks Williams and Watson’s first time on display screen collectively.

“We’re used to playing the character that can, if the film’s running a bit long, be cut out because you don’t genuinely affect the plot of the show. Well, just try cutting the Harkonnen sisters out of this story!”

She provides: “We knew that our work would be used – which, in 35 years, I’d say is the first time that’s happened.”

Olivia Williams as Reverend Mother Tula Harkonnen in Dune - Prophecy. Pic: HBO/ Sky Atlantic

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Williams performs Sister Tula Harkonnen. Pic: HBO/ Sky Atlantic

In Dune: Prophecy, Watson performs the Mom Superior of the Bene Gesserit Sisters, Valya Harkonnen, while Williams performs her youthful sibling, Sister Tula Harkonnen.

Watson, who lately starred alongside Oscar winner Cillian Murphy in Small Issues Like These, says it feels fantastic to be given the liberty to painting sturdy, stoic characters.

“When we were first cast, we went and sat in the National Portrait Gallery and sat in front of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, Bloody Mary, and just thought about that time when those very powerful women were front and centre, and terrified and deeply paranoid because everybody wanted to either marry them or kill them.”

Jodhi May as Empress Natalya Arat Corrino and Mark Strong as Emperor Javicco Corrino in Dune - Prophecy. Pic: Sky Atlantic/ HBO

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Jodhi Might and Mark Sturdy additionally star. Pic: Sky Atlantic/ HBO

The 2 actresses first met outdoors the Black Swan pub in Stratford-upon-Avon after they had been beginning out of their careers with the close by RSC.

Williams says it “doesn’t feel real” that their careers have change into as profitable as they’ve.

“It is an extraordinary thing that I said I would stop at 30 and go and try to be a lawyer. I didn’t intend to be working as an actor and now I can’t believe my luck.

“You get to the top of each job and also you go, was that the final time I’ll act? And that may be a actually robust option to, you already know, convey up a household and you’ll’t get a bloody mortgage or life insurance coverage with a way of life like that. So anyway, that was my real-life bitch.”

Watson mentioned the expertise of main a big-budget sequence collectively was not misplaced on her, and she or he felt an onus to assist create a constructive setting for the youthful actors.

“We were like the CEOs and we were making sure that everybody was seen and felt part of something and were feeling okay about how everything was going down. And it felt like a really healthy way to do it.”

Dune: Prophecy is out there to look at on Sky Atlantic and Now

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