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Denis Villeneuve and Tanya Lapointe dish on surprising fans with Anya Taylor-Joy in 'Dune: Part Two.' Plus, Denis and Tanya share what they wanted to do differently with the second film compared to the first one.

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00:00Congratulations to both of you on such a successful press run so far and having this film come

00:05out. How does it feel reading, I don't know if you've read the reviews or not, but they're

00:09glowing. So how does it feel putting this film out there?

00:12Listen, I heard that the reviews are positive. I'm very pleased with that. I can't wait

00:18to share the movie with the world. I can't wait for the audience to watch. That's going

00:21to be the true test for me.

00:23Of course. I also wanted to ask, were there any lessons you learned from the first one

00:27that you wanted to do a little bit differently in part two for both of you?

00:31On my side, sorry, on my side, multiple. It would be too long to enumerate, but as a film

00:36director, there's so many things that you learn from your mistakes and each movie is a learning

00:43process. So of course, I try to improve a lot as a director between both movies. Yes.

00:52It's a very supportive production. And I would say that legendary Mary Parent, who's one of

00:56the producers, allowed me to become a full producer on this film. And therefore, it was

01:00a bigger title, more responsibility. And I was, you know, I wanted to rise up to this

01:06honor and the responsibility. So it's truly a wonderful experience.

01:09I love that. Well, I know another big surprise during the press run was Anya Taylor-Joy announced

01:15as joining the cast. What was it like keeping that a secret? And what was the reason behind

01:19keeping it under wraps? I think that Hollywood is the most gossip town

01:23on earth. And I wanted as an experiment to see how long we could keep a secret. No, but

01:28yeah, we did it. It was like, we did the, like, it was a special unit. We went into, we went

01:34in Africa, in Namibia to shoot with Anya under super secrecy. And I just love the idea to keep

01:40something like a surprise for the audience until the very end. It was just a way, it was like

01:45a gift that I wanted to keep for the fans.

01:50Another person joined the cast, Austin Butler. I know you mentioned that he went 25% method

01:56for this. So what was it like directing him when he's in the mindset of such an evil character?

02:01It was really frightening. I mean, when we were, I was, the camera was rolling. It was witnessing

02:08like a total metamorphosis, like someone that he was really becoming like evil, psychotic,

02:15sexy, serial killer. It was like a very mind blowing to see such a sweetheart becoming so

02:22ugly and evil in a split second like that. That was, yeah, it was something to witness.

02:27Oh my gosh. Yeah. I can't even imagine. I finally, I just wanted to quickly ask about Dune Messiah.

02:33Where are we in the process? It's a, we are in the writing process.

02:38I just finished part. We just finished part two. So I, I need the time to, to write it.

02:44Those movies are not easy to write. It's like, it's a, I would just add though,

02:50that seeing the enthusiasm of the fans to a potential part three has been inspiring.

02:56Um, I think, can you say that? Absolutely. Absolutely.

02:59Well, I'm sure it's a big undertaking too.

03:01Yes. Yes. It's, it's, uh, I just think that, uh, I agreed to make part one and part two back to back.

03:07And, uh, now I think I will need just to, to digest all this experience and, and, um, find a,

03:14I just want to come back with a strong screenplay. It's almost done, but it needs work a bit.

03:19A little bit more time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:21Well, thank you so much for both stopping by. Congratulations.

03:24Thank you so much. Congratulations.

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