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Dune: Part Two star Austin Butler reveals he improvised having his villain kiss on-screen uncle Stellan Skarsgard: He's 'game for anything'

Austin Butler recently revealed that he was responsible for one of the creepier moments in his massively popular new film Dune: Part Two.

While speaking at the red carpet for the New York City premiere late last month, the 32-year-old actor told Access Hollywood that he improvised a kiss his character shares on screen with the film's head villain, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, played by a prosthetics-covered Stellan Skarsgård. The film, which has become the first blockbuster of 2024, features a scene in which Butler's character, the Baron's hairless nephew Feyd-Rautha, battles to the death with several gladiators to prove that he is the true heir to the Harkonnen throne. Butler's character kisses his uncle on the lips in front of a cheering stadium after emerging triumphant in a bloody gladiatorial battle to secure his status as the Baron's heir; still from Dune 2

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