Rebecca Ferguson Reveals Her ‘Dune’ Character Has An ‘Unpredicted Journey’ In Sequel

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Rebecca Ferguson, 39, hyped up Dune 2 and her quality Lady Jessica successful a caller interview. Rebecca, who plays Timothée Chalamet‘s on-screen ma successful the sci-fi franchise, told Town & Country that Lady Jessica goes connected “an unpredicted journey” successful the upcoming sequel that hits theaters this November. “She’s a ma protecting and grooming someone, something,” Rebecca said successful the interview, published June 6. “I accidental something due to the fact that she knows [she’s dealing with] an entity bigger than themselves.”

Rebecca Ferguson for ‘Town & Country’ (Photo: Luc Braquet)

The Swedish histrion continued, “When Paul [Timothee’s character] starts going off, she begins losing power, and it puts her connected an unpredicted travel to observe who we are successful effect to different people. That’s erstwhile we find ourselves again.”

Rebecca stars with Timothee, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard, and more in the Dune films, which are based connected Frank Herbert‘s 1965 novel. Director Denis Villeneuve told Town & Country that helium changed immoderate of the communicative for the sequel truthful that Rebecca had a bigger role.

“Lady Jessica benignant of disappears successful the 2nd portion of the book, and I made definite arsenic I was penning the screenplay to bash the opposite, to marque definite that she volition beryllium active, to bring her backmost to the beforehand of the story,” Denis said. “I’m looking guardant for the satellite to spot what Rebecca has accomplished. She’s not acrophobic to spell precise acold away. She’s a unit that I tin number on.”

Rebecca Ferguson successful ‘Dune’ (Photo: Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett Collection)

Denis went connected to praise Rebecca successful the interview, calling her a “passionate, lukewarm quality being who loves to rapidly interruption the ice.” The French-Canadian filmmaker besides said, “She has a immense imagination. She’s idiosyncratic who has nary fearfulness to locomotion into the portion of the unknown. She tin marque you judge successful the extra­terrestrial, successful different cultures, successful antithetic worlds oregon dimensions. Some actors are precise down to earth, but she’s idiosyncratic who tin alert high.”

Rebecca Ferguson connected the screen of ‘Town & Country’ (Photo: Luc Braquet)

Rebecca is having a infinitesimal successful Hollywood close now. In summation to Dune 2, she’s besides starring successful the adjacent two Mission: Impossible films with Tom Cruise. In the Town & Country interview, Tom said that Rebecca is simply a cleanable acceptable for her relation arsenic Ilsa Faust successful the enactment spy franchise. “Rebecca is enormously talented, and erstwhile she decides to bash something, she makes it happen,” Tom said. Rebecca is besides presently starring successful the fashionable Apple TV+ apocalyptic bid Silo.

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