Austin Butler and Sting on Feb. 25, 2024.Photo:Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images
Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images
Stingis sharing some movie memorabilia with hisDunecounterpartAustin Butler.
When Butler, 32, appeared onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonMonday, theDune: Part Twostar shared that he got to meet Sting — real name Gordon Matthew Sumner — at the new movie’s New York City premiere on Sunday.
“I met him last night, he came to the premiere. It was so surreal. My mind was blown. He’s the best,” Butler said of meeting the former Police singer/bassist, 72, who previously played Butler’sDunecharacter Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in filmmaker David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation ofDune.
“He came up afterward, and he was so, so, lovely and just debonair,” Butler said of their meeting. “I asked him about [starring in the originalDunemovie] and he said he still has the codpiece from the original [Dune], he said he’s going to dry clean it and let me wear it if I want to.”
Sting in 1984’s Dune and Austin Butler in 2024’s Dune: Part Two.Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Sting played the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in 1984’sDune, which costarred Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet’s character) and envisioned the villain as a red-haired man. Denis Villeneuve’s newDunemovies split the iconic 1965 Frank Herbert novel into two parts, and as such, Feyd-Rautha did not appear in 2021’sDune: Part One. Trailers for the new movietease him as a primary antagonistfor Chalamet, 28, in the sequel.
In the new movie, Butler portrays the character as a completely bald and ruthless killer. “The thing with a villainous character — I’d never played a character quite like him, and I didn’t want to judge him, so it was a lot of imagining what his childhood was like,” Butler said of adapting to the role onThe Tonight Show.
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Butler recently shared with theLos Angeles Timesthat he and Chalamet onlymet for the first timewhen they began rehearsing stunts for the new movie in Hungary. “We basically said hello and then got down to work on the fight, trying to kill each other,” he said.
Austin Butler and Lea Seydoux in Dune: Part Two.Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Pictures
Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Pictures
“That was surreal; there was 4,500 fans in the audience and they were screaming and I’d never been in a movie with that many people before, it was incredible,” he said of the screening.
Dune: Part Twois in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
