There was just so much confidence and assuredness.
Just the difference in that camera angle, and to know that right away.
I just had so much trust."
Oscar Isaac discusses ‘Dune’ with EW’s The Awardist.Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures
It’s hard to explain, but I think it’s less about communicating an idea.
It’s his emotional expression of what you see on there that just feels like someone’s vision.
It really does."
“Everything about it was just so scary,” Isaac recalls.
“He’s been stripped of his clothing.
There was some thought, I think originally, like, ‘he doesn’t have to be naked.’
I was like, ‘No, he should be naked, man.’
It’s like Christ on the cross kind of moment.
So we came up with a few different ideas of what his posture would be.
It’s just been traveling along with him as this omen.
Perhaps the best example of this on-set levity was a little gift Isaac left for Villeneuve afterward.
“Just a little, musty handkerchief.”
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