Rebecca Ferguson says Dune director Denis Villeneuve was not interested in her poise, but a story about “the strongest woman in the world, and her fear for when she creates chaos and has to bring her son in front of death.”
plays Lady Jessica, lover of the world ruler portrayed by Oscar Isaac and matriarch to Timothée Chalamet’s messiah-in-waiting. She is a doting mother who is distracted by the pressures of a royal household, but more importantly, she is brimming over with a supernatural power that could bring about revolution.
“Dune,” which opens in theaters and on HBO Max on Oct. 22, is part of that grand, fast-disappearing tradition of innovative, blockbuster studio filmmaking. It’s a brainy sci-fi epic, something of a rarity these days. But Ferguson says her Lady Jessica is hardly old-fashioned. When first approached by Villeneuve to star in the Warner Bros. epic, she spoke bluntly about her hesitations.
It is yet another role to which she lends her steely intensity, a skill she’s been honing since she was a teenager. While her introduction to acting is largely unknown to U.S. audiences, it is a fascinating case study in ambition and self-discovery. Ferguson’s profile exploded after “Rogue Nation,” and she appeared in the likes of “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “The Girl on the Train” and “The Greatest Showman.” There were some missteps, like the ill-fated Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi thriller “Life” and the gruesome Michael Fassbender murder mystery “The Snowman.
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