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‘Dune: Part Two’ Actor Souheila Yacoub Charts Breakthrough Year With Star Turns in ‘The Balconettes,’ ‘Planet B’


'Dune: Part Two' actor Souheila Yacoub on her breakout year with star turns in Noemie Merlant's 'The Balconettes,' Aude Léa Rapin's 'Planet B.'

And with a 2024 filmography that boasts “Dune: Part Two,” ahead of star turns in Noemie Merlant ’s genre-bender “The Balconettes” and Aude Léa Rapin sci-fi thriller “Planet B,” Yacoub will have little reason to ask such questions again. Once the actor stepped onto the biggest set of her career, and found herself opposite Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet, Yacoub rather quickly overcame initial nerves, taking to the role of Fremen warrior Shishakli with a greater degree of ease than ever before. “I love to work in different languages,” says Yacoub, whose mother tongue is Flemish, who spoke German on the Swiss national gymnast team, and who performed in Kurdish for her role in the TV series “No Man’s Land.”

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