Austin Butler dishes details into his 'Dune 2' transformation: ‘we trained a lot’

Austin Butler credited his stuntman Duffy Gaver in 'Dune: Part Two' for intense training

Austin Butler dishes details into his Dune 2 transformation: ‘we trained a lot’
Austin Butler dishes details into his 'Dune 2' transformation: ‘we trained a lot’

Austin Butler, who plays Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the deadliest weapon of House Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two opened up about the intense training he went through to transform into his role.

During an exclusive conversation with Pinkvilla, Butler revealed, “I had months to train with this amazing guy, Duffy Gaver, who is a stuntman and was a Navy SEAL, and of course Roger Yuan, he’s brilliant, a legend, and I get to fight him in the film.”

He continued, “I knew the fight scenes were going to be really taxing, and I wanted them to feel powerful, so we trained a lot.”

The Elvis actor went on to explain, “We did a lot of Kali, which is Filipino stick fighting, and a lot of knife work. It was really about trying to find Feyd’s fighting style, and if Paul has training in the Atreides and Fremen way of fighting, how does Feyd’s differ.”

Austin Butler further noted of his transformation for the film, “And I trained vocally as well, and once I saw myself in the mirror and I didn’t have any hair, and I had the black teeth... You start to see the transformation, and that just becomes a blast, because then you can lose yourself in it.”

Dune Part: Two, starring Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet in the leading role, which is a sequel to 2021’s Dune, is scheduled to release on March 1, 2024.

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