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Austin Butler Cut Back on Method Acting for ‘Dune 2’ Role; He Was ‘Only 25 or 30%’ in Character ‘When the Camera Was Off,’ Says Denis Villeneuve
Austin Butler set more boundaries while Method acting as Feyd-Rautha on the "Dune 2" set.
He spent three years researching the music icon and went fell Method actor during production, never abandoning Presley’s trademark southern drawl for months on end. For his role as the sociopathic villain Feyd-Rautha in Denis Villeneuve ‘s “ Dune: Part Two,” Butler toned down the Method acting considerably. “I’ve definitely in the past, with ‘Elvis,’ explored living within that world for three years and that being the only thing that I think about day and night,” Butler told the Los Angeles Times.
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