Timothee Chalamet Talks 'Dune' Ending, Teases Upcoming Third Movie
Timothee Chalamet is teasing the upcoming third Dune movie.
The 30-year-old actor will return as Paul Atreides for Dune: Messiah, and at a recent town hall event with Matthew McConaughey, opened up about filming the feature.
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“What I think you see at the end of the second one, and across the third one, is yourself in Interstellar and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight and Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now and stuff like that,” Timothee said, via Variety, before backtracking some. “Actually, wait, let me rephrase all of that! Hold up. I cannot put myself in that same boat. Let’s just say, it’s these big movies where you could sneak in something. A curveball.”
“Especially on this third one, all the great sh-t you see on screen is from freedom of movement and freedom of choice,” he teased. “And with Denis [Villaneuve], we really had a good rhythm. It’s the eeriest one. It’s a big swing.”
Timothee also talked about the sci-fi technology on the upcoming third installment.
“On the first Dune, we had an ornithopter sequence that I got a chance to do again in the third, but this time I was way more geared up,” he shared. “On Dune 3, as opposed to the first movie, I came out early and studied the control panel — all sorts of hieroglyphics and things that aren’t tethered to reality. I wanted to know what each button did, and invent a dynamic for myself with it.”
“I didn’t want to be complacent about a single moment. Everything was sacred, and it was my last time doing a Dune film, so I really wanted to treat it as sacred,” Timothee said filming. “Because people can get complacent, but I was more intense on the third one. It felt like that was the natural momentum, so I wanted to push against that as hard as I could.”
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