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Travis Fimmel Never Thought He Was Playing the Bad Guy
“I enjoy playing characters who try to make people wonder what they’re thinking. The quiet person in the room is the scariest.”
Desmond Hart began the series as a soldier freshly returned from a battle on Arrakis with mysterious powers; by the end of the first episode, he uses them to immolate both a Bene Gesserit truthsayer and a child betrothed to Emperor Javicco Corrino’s daughter Ynez. All this could be whiplash-inducing if Travis Fimmel’s performance didn’t invest Desmond with both menace and sympathy, stemming his vision for the character as a champion of the unrepresented masses. With a few bumps along the way, this season tells the story of Desmond’s ascent from a low status soldier to, essentially pulling the strings of the entire empire.
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