Duneis finally on the way later this month.

“I feel like we were all just trying to do as good a job as possible.

It’s easy with Denis because he’s so joyous about his own work.

Dune roundtable

The cast of ‘Dune’ laughs it up during EW’s roundtable discussion at the Venice Film Festival, hosted by Cynthia Erivo.Entertainment Weekly

I’m looking at Josh because you two on set are something else.”

“So he has this great way of kind of elevating everybody and lifting morale.

But when it comes down to scenes, there’s something that shifts.

He’s very manipulative like that.”

The roundtable gave the actors the opportunity to sing each other’s praises.

“So this is like a huge deal, even just to be here.

I was listening to your entrance music this morning.”

“So the spice is kind of a dangerous thing for him.

Because everybody goes there to dig in and take it out, it’s like oil.

We’re sitting here with the grass, the trees, the water.

It’s just there.

But we owe it to each other to just keep this thing flowing in the correct way.

It’s up to us right now.”

With environmental justice comes racial justice and all sorts of justice.