Dune: Dave Bautista and Stellan Skarsgård on Working With Denis Villeneuve

With director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune now playing around the world and streaming for free on HBO Max, I recently got to speak with Dave Bautista and Stellan Skarsgård about making the incredible movie. During the interview, Bautista and Skarsgård talked about the things they kept wanting to tell their friends and family about the film, why they loved working with Villeneuve, how even though Dune takes place on the other side of the galaxy it’s talking about what’s going on today, and how cruel people can be in the search for power. Dune is based on the hugely influential sci-fi novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. In the film, we follow Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, whose family inherits custody over the planet Arrakis (or the titular “Dune“), an unforgiving desert world that also hosts the only source of something known as melange, or “spice,“ the most valuable material in the known universe. Meanwhile, a plot is brewing against the Atreides from a r