Zendaya _ Florence Pugh were terrified working with Austin Butler in ‘Dune_ Part 2’.

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In this interview Zendaya and Florence Pugh talk about filming 'Dune: Part 2' and working with Timothée Chalamet, Austin Butler and more! Florence Pugh talked about how Austin Butler's acting was terrifying (and that he did not go method) for his Feyd-Rautha Harkonnenrole. Plus, Sian recreates the 'Water of life' Dune: Part 2 scene. Florence Pugh also discussed her Princess Irulan outfit, and Zendaya reflected on teaching Timothée Chalamet to sand walk as part of their Paul Atreides and Chani scene.
You can see the vibe, you two are like best mates.
The movie is amazing.
Before I get started, I always get so thirsty in these junkets.
I'm just gonna leave.
Do you know what I'm gonna have? Just a bit of this.
Oh.
It's the Gatorade.
Bit of blue Gatorade.
Oh no, water of the life.
I want water as well.
You're gonna compulse. Careful.
It's so great.
Just gives me the edge.
It's a good colour.
That's exactly the colour.
This isn't sweet horror.
The film is such a big blockbuster
and I think you haven't had that for quite a while.
I was sitting there thinking,
this is what it must have felt like in the 80s
when people watched Star Wars for the first time
and got like a whoosh.
Did it blow you away seeing it all?
Because I presume how it's filmed,
you know, when you finally see it all come together
and it felt like next level sort of stuff here.
Were you quite blown away by it?
Absolutely. I think I thought that,
I don't know, I think the first time,
because I wasn't there very much for the first filming,
it was like a week.
I was so blown away because I didn't know.
I was like, oh, that's what you guys were doing.
And then this time around, I thought like,
oh, maybe now that I've peeked behind the curtain,
I'm going to see it, I'm going to be more critical
and I'm not going to be able to enjoy it as much
because I was there, which was not my experience.
I was still just as blown away
and the magic was still very much real.
Florence, I'll speak to you about your chain mail outfit.
Heaven.
The gasp says it all.
It was stunning.
It looked heavy though, was it?
It was quite heavy.
One of the things that people don't know about though
is in the morning, because obviously it's morning time
and the temperature is cold.
I was going to say, did you have anything under then?
No, the metal is freezing.
I hate that.
So in the morning when I'd come in at like five or six
or whatever, whenever it was that we'd come in,
it would be absolutely freezing
and it was quite a nasty like shock to the system.
Like blow dry it or something?
Yeah, maybe, but I'm not that demanding.
I would have tried to, because I can't,
when like cold on your body.
And it takes a long time.
It's like an ice bath.
It doesn't stop, exactly.
You see, these are the things you don't realise
when you watch it.
I half thought Zendaya, you might have tried it on
because I know you both are into your fashion.
I wish, yeah.
Do you imagine you just come into your dressing room?
Oh, sorry, sorry.
Sorry, I'm warming it up for you.
I was just warming, yeah, sorry.
Four hours later.
And talk to me about working with sound
because surely it got everywhere, right?
It got out of that one.
It did get everywhere, but you know what?
When you're in and you get the opportunity
to do something like this,
it is truly the last thing you're really worried about.
Like you get to be in the most gorgeous locations,
most gorgeous set pieces with the most wonderful people
who are so talented and have put so much effort.
And when I'm watching like,
bless our camera operators or even Greg sometimes
when he had the camera
and he's trying to like hold it
and he's slipping into the sand
while we're in the middle of a date,
he's slowly sliding and you're like,
oh gosh, are you okay?
But you can't keep going.
You're not thinking about the little piece of sand
in your nooks and crannies.
But yeah, it's incredibly special
to shoot this kind of film.
One of my favorite scenes is when you're teaching
Paul or Timothy how to sandwalk
and I have to say, girls,
I gave this a bit of a go in real life.
Can I just show you?
I just want you to rate how good.
How did it go?
Well, what I realized is it's quite good for dodging
just London.
People in general.
Yeah.
I gave it a go on the cross.
I think it looks good.
Yeah?
Yours looks good.
Have I got the technique down, do you think?
I think more people should be doing this.
And you know what?
You know what I love even better?
Is nobody better than I.
People are like, I'm trying to get to work.
You know what I mean?
I'm not even thinking about this lady.
They're probably like, wow, she seems so happy.
Yeah, it looks like a little skip.
A little slide dodging through people.
Yeah, it's good.
You talked about as well,
like how it was such an amazing cast to work with.
Now, Austin Butler, he's barely recognizable in this film.
And he's-
Really?
No, I'm kidding.
Slightly different with that.
He's obviously terrifying,
but in real life, he just seems like the complete opposite.
Like, I don't know.
Once he was sort of out of character,
did you all have like a laugh backstage?
I mean, also, when he wasn't filming the takes,
he was still Austin.
So he would go from being like psychotic murderer
to Sweetie Pie, psychotic murderer, Sweetie Pie.
He just was a bit bald.
But what was your reaction
when you first saw him come out in the costume?
Did you recognize him?
It was horrible.
It really is.
It's just so on him.
I think that's what makes it so amazing,
this character and the way that he played it.
He is so not that person.
He is the most kind, gentle, loving gentleman.
And then you have this absolute, hideous,
uncontrollable, terrifying, psychotic murderer.
Like literally, it just doesn't,
they kind of like make the other version look better.
Yeah, I suppose that's true.
Yeah.
Because of all the,
I mean, there's been a lot of villains
over the years in movies.
I just thought you could maybe rate his terrifying character.
More terrifying than Bane?
Ooh, I actually would say more terrifying
because he's creepy.
Yeah.
Like at least Bane's like, yeah, that's scary,
but Austin plays him so creepy
and he relishes pain, which is just, ugh.
Yeah, okay, he's quite brutal.
Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible
where he literally sort of,
can't be killed, this guy just keeps getting up.
I still think he's creepier.
Yeah, I think he definitely, yeah, definitely creepier.
He's definitely creepier.
And finally, Miranda Paisley.
Oh.
I love her in that.
Yeah, me too.
She is so good.
Me too.
But terrifying.
But, but, but, but nuance.
You have no style or sense of fashion.
I don't know.
It wasn't a question.
I do kind of feel like,
you know what's gonna happen with her though.
You're like, if I do well,
then she won't come and get me.
Yeah.
If I don't do well, she'll eat me alive.
Yeah, that's true.
But, you know, yeah.
I think, I think Fade.
Tops, tops.
Is less, yeah, less kind.
Yeah.
Yeah, no one would have seen Austin
being like this ever before.
This is gonna be quite a shock to the audiences.
It's such a performance, yeah.
And just finally,
because you two don't really have many scenes together.
Well, you have the end scene together,
but there's not even dialogue, right?
But you clearly, you can see the vibe.
You two are like best mates.
So how, how, like, I don't know.
Like you seem to just become like such good friends.
It's funny how like press tours.
Yeah.
Become the time sometimes,
more than the actual filming.
But no, I feel like incredibly lucky, you know,
that we got to do this together
and hopefully there's, there'll be, I don't know,
more of that.
Because I, while I've gotten to know you over this time,
it's like so, been so lovely and joyous.
And I'm like, I would love to do this on a set.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And get to see you work more
because we just had our little glances
and it would be nice to do it more.
Yeah.
I think we've been fans of each other for a while
and we were kind of each other's Instagram hype women
for about a year and a half before we met.
And so finally when we did meet,
it was like, oh, we made it.
But we only had, you know, a short time to work together.
But even still, just getting to work with people
that you admire is always a gift.
And it only makes you feel, when it goes well,
it only makes you feel like,
I can't wait to do that again.
So yeah, we're desperate to do it again.
Oh, we all want to see that.
Most want to see the drama.
Yeah, of course.
