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‘Dune: Prophecy’: How Olivia Williams & Emily Watson’s Longtime Friendship Led To “Powerful And Damaged” Sister Roles In “A Really Tasty Plot”
'Dune: Prophecy': How Olivia Williams & Emily Watson's longtime friendship led to playing "powerful and damaged" sisters in "a really tasty plot"
Their paths would soon cross again, as Williams made her foray into Hollywood, with Kevin Costner’s The Postman and Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, around the same time as Watson was leveraging her breakout success in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves. The prequel series about the formation of the Bene Gesserit, an order of women who become the puppet masters of the great houses of the Empire on Dune, offered Watson and Williams plenty to dig their teeth into, as the two morally ambiguous sisters running the de facto cult. She’s powerful and damaged and got one hell of a mission,’” recalls Watson, who plays Valya Harkonnen, the Sisterhood’s Reverend Mother Superior that seeks to position a Sister on the Council of the Imperium, while restoring the reputation of her disgraced family.
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