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Timothée Chalamet & Zendaya’s Emerging Friendship Helped Solidify Their ‘Dune: Part Two’ Chemistry, Says Denis Villeneuve — Contenders Los Angeles
Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve says he knew the storytelling success of 'Dune: Part Two' hinged on the developing chemistry between stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve knew the storytelling success of Dune: Part Two hinged on the developing chemistry between stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, as well as the antagonistic energy of Austin Butler, and worked carefully with the actors to ensure that those elements showed up onscreen. “They met each other in Part One, briefly, and spontaneously they became friends,” Villeneuve explained of the pairing of the actors as they played the ultimately star-crossed lovers Paul Atreides and Chani throughout the lengthy arc of two films. “Austin did an incredible job, to go back in that sexy psychotic mode where it’s like a cross mix between Mick Jagger and a sociopathic killer, and he took tremendous pleasure going there,” said Villeneuve.
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