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Denis Villeneuve and Luca Guadagnino Compare Notes on Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, Intimacy on Set and Why They’re ‘Grumpy’ About Modern Cinema
Denis Villeneuve and Luca Guadagnino meet for Variety's "Directors on Directors" series and talk about working with Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
After Villeneuve, 57, saw Timothée Chalamet in Guadagnino’s 2017 romance “Call Me by Your Name,” he cast him as Paul Atreides, the callow princeling turned desert messiah, in his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel “Dune.” And before Zendaya shot “Dune Part Two” she appeared in the 53-year-old Guadagnino’s erotically charged tennis drama “Challengers” as one side of a spiky love triangle with Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist. Guadagnino: I remember I was in Venice and I went to see “Incendies.” A friend of mine was in the jury for first time directors, and the words spread on the Lido in three seconds that the movie was a masterpiece. Villeneuve: With the right fabrics, with the right textures to make sure that Feyd-Rautha [played by Austin Butler] would not look like a clown walking in the arena, that the Bene Gesserit sister will go from black to white.
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