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Dune 3’s “Intense” Paul Atreides Hyped By Timothée Chalamet



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Timothée Chalamet hints at a “more intense” Paul Atreides in Dune: Part Three and his future with the franchise.

In a Variety and CNN town hall at the University of Texas, Chalamet describes Dune: Part Three as “my last time” doing a movie in the franchise, which contributed to his heightened performance. Check out Chalamet’s comments below:

I didn’t want to be complacent about a single moment. Everything was sacred, and it was my last time doing a “Dune” film, so I really wanted to treat it as sacred. Because people can get complacent, but I was more intense on the third one. It felt like that was the natural momentum, so I wanted to push against that as hard as I could.

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