How Austin Butler Found the Voice and Physicality for Feyd-Rautha in 'Dune: Part Two'

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3 ай бұрын

Austin Butler discusses his role in "Dune: Part Two" and how he loved the uniqueness and challenge of it.
Here's a bit more of what's in the interview:
• He describes the physical transformation and psychological depth required for his character, Feyd-Rautha.
• He also mentions how director Denis Villeneuve's vision for the character's physicality and imposing presence, along with his ideas of his background, relationships, and influences helped him with the role.
• Explains the process of finding Fade's voice, rooted in his upbringing by the Baron.
• He also compares joining a new film set to the first day of school, expressing nervousness.
'Dune: Part Two' explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) as he unites with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
'Dune: Part Two' is in theaters now.
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@rickmayabolis 3 ай бұрын

his voice really got me... it was like young Baron. As Tyrants just want to make others pretty much copies of themselves Austin was really like a young version of Stellen's Baron.

@AnnaBellaChannel 3 ай бұрын

He was the Baron before he got fatted. The Baron could not be control whereas Feyd could be control.

@tykjenffs 3 ай бұрын

The son the Baron never had

@franticzenster8140 3 ай бұрын

Like Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un

@henrydiaz5173 3 ай бұрын

Yeah that tough Harkonnen voice

@rickmayabolis 3 ай бұрын

@@franticzenster8140 life is art. art is life

@blacktronpavel 3 ай бұрын

Butler's portrayal of Feyd ended up being the best break-out character of the movie. He stole all the scenes.

@fcon2123 3 ай бұрын

He did a fantastic job, no doubt, but I think Javier Bardem's Stilgar ran away with the movie. Loved every second he was on screen.

@tonyc.4392 3 ай бұрын

@@fcon2123 yusss funny stillgar was an absolute treasure.

@blacktronpavel 3 ай бұрын

@@fcon2123 totally!

@blacktronpavel 3 ай бұрын

@@tonyc.4392 absolutely was!

@remsan03 3 ай бұрын

This was a genius casting decision. He even have the pouty lips that Frank Herbert described in the books. To quote Princess Irulan, "Feyd Rautha? He's psychotic."

@shanmantv 3 ай бұрын

I really love this channel. No flashy edits just straight actors discussing their process

@gimmeyourrights8292 3 ай бұрын

They did a really good job at making him a dark mirror of Paul in every way. He's a mini version of the Baron and the Devil of the Harkonnens.

@quinncillian 3 ай бұрын

they're both dark, but I see your point. a darker mirror, perhaps?

@gimmeyourrights8292 3 ай бұрын

@@quinncillian Their both dark, but initially Paul is less dark until his father gets killed.

@quinncillian 2 ай бұрын

@@gimmeyourrights8292 true! good point

@shartsimpson214 2 ай бұрын

No, they're both pretty light skinned

@blueshit199 3 ай бұрын

Feyd Rautha looks absolutely insane and maniacal as Austin Butler!

@promnightdumpsterbaby9553 3 ай бұрын

He brought my favorite character to life and did him justice.

@TheExtaliber 3 ай бұрын

austin killed it insanely good portrayal. So many stellar performances in ᑐᑌᑎᕮ

@msfundio 3 ай бұрын

Hey... how did you write Dune like that?

@TheExtaliber 3 ай бұрын

saw it in another comment and copied it lmao @@msfundio

@corpseweed 3 ай бұрын

@@msfundio ASCII no questions, I'll tell you no lies.

@levifreeman 3 ай бұрын

I can hear skarsgard’s accent for baron even in this interview. Butler has a hard time shaking the voices he plays. 😂😂 but it’s great also not a bad thing

@johnny7s1 3 ай бұрын

We as a society are blessed to have such a great crop of Hollywood actors man, this movie directly represented a directors visions come to life! The body language and dialogue was insane, coupled with Hans Zimmer and great action sequences and top of line cinematography, this movie could bring Hollywood back from the shadows!!!!

@rizzo-films 3 ай бұрын

His voice is interesting, as it is an emulation of Stellan's voice, though Stellan is already doing an American accent with very subtle flavors of his native Swedish accent peaking through (in interviews his Swedish accent is heavier). Butler's accent is like an American / faded (Fayded?) Swedish accent which is probably harder to pull off than either a heavy Swedish accent or American, which Butler already has. Pretty cool.

@BillNicholsTV 3 ай бұрын

never realized how much he looks like Bill Skarsgård

@CidGuerreiro1234 3 ай бұрын

I went through the whole movie thinking it was Bill Skarsgård.

@edwardmulholland7912 3 ай бұрын

He gave a great performance in the film - this guy is definitely going to be big in the future.

@Rozq 3 ай бұрын

He already is bro….

@edwardmulholland7912 3 ай бұрын

@@Rozq ⁠ Really? I must be old school - I’ve never heard/seen this guy before. My bad.

@stalwartzero7001 3 ай бұрын

⁠@@edwardmulholland7912He hasn’t got the filmography yet to say and I don’t think you’re wrong at all in what you said. He played Elvis, which respectfully he did great as but the move itself had a lot of poor decisions in writing/editing/score and I don’t imagine myself ever wanting to watch that again. He’s about to be in a bunch of movies so the games on now and we will know in ten years if he’s a legend or not.

@edwardmulholland7912 3 ай бұрын

@@stalwartzero7001 He is definitely a talented actor, good luck to the guy.

@cholatepnabangchang4834 3 ай бұрын

**Spoiler alert** . . . The one thing that I really resent having Butler play Feyd Rautha is that he will most likely not be around for any future Dune films. Nevertheless, he has made his memorable mark.

@rizzo-films 3 ай бұрын

I agree, he is such a captivating villain. But so much of what they did in Pt 2 was a success, I'm looking forward to what new incredible things they pull off in Messiah!

@nateb5544 3 ай бұрын

How is that Austin’s fault he was supposed to die in part 2 no matter the actor lmao?

@cholatepnabangchang4834 3 ай бұрын

@@nateb5544 Not resenting him playing the role, resenting the fact that he won't be reappearing.

@twohorsesinamancostume7606 3 ай бұрын

Butler did a fantastic job, every time Feyd was on screen his physicality screamed that he was a predator.

@84jdgregory 3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure I'm just jealous cause he's such a a handsome and seems to be a pretty wholesome guy. I will say though, he was awesome in Dune. Makeup department deserves house props, too. They made him look like this embryotic almost android. Just soulless. Then he did a great job of letting everyone know he has a soul and it's blacker than his teeth.

@MrNigesk8 3 ай бұрын

Clever lad. Good job

@robhaskins 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting interview! i love listening to actors talk about their process of becoming! I want to see Dune 2 soon.

@chriswilson3126 3 ай бұрын

The bts shots are really great. It makes me want to see Austin interview as himself in makeup!

@HalamaDavid 3 ай бұрын

I admire your talking here mr. You are the actor in the very sense....

@25usd94 3 ай бұрын

Killed it

@chodebop2301 3 ай бұрын

This background they put them all on is phenomenal

@planeguy95 2 ай бұрын

He was so fucking scary in this film

@ForceMaximus84 3 ай бұрын

Probably my favorite performance in the movie. Austin Butler did a phenomenal job. And thank God he’s not in a metal codpiece. Lol

@emilybutts97 3 ай бұрын

Awe that’s nice 🤗

@hazwan149 3 ай бұрын

I wish we get more scene of Feyd Rautha..

@Astrithor Ай бұрын

The voice was a little distracting at first, until I realized Austin was trying to make sure he was a member of the family. He would look AND sound at least something like the Baron.

@hYBRYDcOBRA 3 ай бұрын

They better make him MCU’s Gambit damn it

@thyop89 2 ай бұрын

No thanks, he's far too good an actor to waste in the Marvel franchise. Hope he continues to do varied and interesting projects with great directors rather than getting stuck in a contract to churn out paint by numbers movies with shonky dialogue for people with no attention span.

@deano2160 3 ай бұрын

Watched it today. As a many time read fan of the series I have to say they changed many aspects or character intentions within the story. I won't go on in this thread about all the bits I found off but It was well put together and this character held the screen. He did a fantastic job in a squiffy book adaption.

@magetaaaaaa 3 ай бұрын

It works primarily on a visual and emotional level. The film does a really good job of making you feel the things you're seeing. The weakness is that it is primarily visual and they kind of skirt along the surface on the story without truly penetrating its depths. Non book readers will have a harder time understanding intentions of certain characters or the meaning of some things.

@abudgie6909 3 ай бұрын

I found it to be the best possible adaptation of Dune into cinema. It was perfect. The changes felt appropriate for the medium.

@magetaaaaaa 3 ай бұрын

@@abudgie6909 This is exactly how I see it. So much of the book is internal to Pauls or Jessica's thoughts including the final duel. They had to depart from that and make it their own and they did a very good job. I would have changed some things personally but this is the best adaptation we're likely going to have of this work.

@KarateGirl999 2 ай бұрын

The meanest villains are always acted by the nicest people.

@Joydeep2000 3 ай бұрын

Acting is hard af

@Bozothcow 3 ай бұрын

Man the final fight scene with Paul... really made me cringe imagining feeling that sort of wound! If you know what I'm talking about I'm sure you agree.

@user-zb9vm5nz3s 3 ай бұрын

Real Austin butler was so good looking amazing very handsome special be with

@TheRubberStudiosASMR 3 ай бұрын

I swear I could hear some Elvis in some lines

@1memo1717 3 ай бұрын

He was absolutely excellent surpassed his role in Alivis

@papageorges6428 3 ай бұрын

okay I just realized, this guy is now ready to play Voldemort when the HP tv show comes out!

@stonebrix168 3 ай бұрын

no but making him kiss Stellan Skarsgard on the mouth was CRAZY

@Beloadi420 3 ай бұрын

Lol that’s what crazy to you?

@ebethlouise2201 3 ай бұрын

He didn’t make him, he improvised that!

@kievbutcher 3 ай бұрын

That's CRAZY, that's WILD. Find a better way to describe things that are slightly surprising or uncomfortable, this internet language trend of overreacting to everything is tiresome.

@stonebrix168 3 ай бұрын

🤓@@kievbutcher

@adamsinger123 2 ай бұрын

@@kievbutcherunexpected but in character?

@justimagine2403 3 ай бұрын

Marzipan!

@marcjohnson1665 3 ай бұрын

To me he came off as "worst universe Opie" from the Andy Griffith show. Replace all the positive reinforcement and life lessons with hate and pain and fear.

@NoCreamedCorn 3 ай бұрын

King of mumbling

@edsmale 3 ай бұрын

Wonder if they used a hair cap or shaved his head?

@matt928 3 ай бұрын

Hair cap

@imAreyz 3 ай бұрын

Playing Elvis really changed this dudes voice permanently 😂

@michaelroams 3 ай бұрын

He still sounds like Elvis hehe

@ffederel 3 ай бұрын

"As soon as I read the script, I knew Feyd-Rautha was gonna have Elvis' voice."

@janoycresva276 3 ай бұрын

Technically they did a 3/3 casting a rockstar as Mick Jagger was going to be Feyd in Jodorowsky’s Dune, obviously they had Sting in the David Lynch film & now Austin Butler who portrayed Elvis Presley in a film that while it was not good he wasn’t the problem with. I feel that’s the case for this film too, it’s not good but he’s not the problem with it.

@dwpetrak 3 ай бұрын

That bald cap to protect the actor's hair really made Feyd's head look bulbous. I couldn't un see it. I can't be the only only who thought he wasn't scary, just a young, protected edgelord.

@brwi1 3 ай бұрын

Do Elvis voice again, make it gravely

@atbta 3 ай бұрын

Wasnt it just a stellan skaarrssggaarrd impression?

@nicklewandowski3877 3 ай бұрын

GAMBIT

@hYBRYDcOBRA 3 ай бұрын

I will accept no substitutes

@TheBlackClockOfTime 3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if people are there yet, but I'm just gonna say it: this performance is on par with Ledger's Joker.

@ritaadler-everett5392 3 ай бұрын

It's a shame that Feyd as a character came to such a final end. I felt like, as a ruthless, villainous character, there was much more growth that should have been explored. He still has a vulnerable, immature essence to him in Dune: Part 2 and I would have liked to see him grow as a man and as a father. Will his child play a role in a sequel?

@JSTmore 3 ай бұрын

If they follow the books, from frank Herbert then no If they adapt something from his son's books than the child will have a minor role

@jp072987 3 ай бұрын

Damn movie has been out for like 2 days. Cool spoiler.

@AnnaBellaChannel 3 ай бұрын

Feyd's child is a no go; once Paul's line sits on the Imperial Throne.

@AloutkaKazawa 3 ай бұрын

@JSTmore but the child supposed to be a girl. That was the plan Bene Gesserit had for him.

@AnnaBellaChannel 3 ай бұрын

@@AloutkaKazawa oh yes; he has a daughter but nothing comes of it. Waste of time & energy. Feyd could have been the ruler of the Empire if he had won against Paul.

@ULTRAOutdoorsman 3 ай бұрын

Voice: copied Skarsgard Physicality: crash diet

@Cinnabar_and_Chalcanthite 3 ай бұрын

Feyd was, in the books, pretty charismatic. Here, because of the director's perspective, they took out the red hair and any real charisma in the characters, (this includes color, lol) from the Harkonnen line but focused on visual FX to represent them. I still think Sting's performance in the 80's was closer to the real Feyd in the books. None of this, again, was Butler's failure but a difference in vision from the director.

@chetmanley1885 3 ай бұрын

Sting had watch A Clockwork Orange a couple of times and said "yeah I'll do that"

@Cinnabar_and_Chalcanthite 3 ай бұрын

@@chetmanley1885 spot on my friend, as a free spirit, highly educated, well read. Thank you! Btw, Cwo was and is today, an absolute masterpiece!

@DanFlashes99 3 ай бұрын

Austin definitely has star quality, he's a good looking guy and he's very "cool." But I increasingly find myself thinking, what else you got? He's a decent actor but I don't see a ton of depth to him. I feel like we may have already seen his limits

@user-eb3pi4tv9k 3 ай бұрын

He looks a bit weedy in the role, should have got in the gym and bulked up.

@PeterYiffin 2 ай бұрын

Bulk doesn't help in combat, which is all speed. He was incredibly toned in the coliseum scene.

@Cenot4ph 3 ай бұрын

The stupid masks 😂

@williamgrand9724 3 ай бұрын

He talks like he has COVID...

@gktde9874 3 ай бұрын

Sorry, it seems I’m the villain here… but Austin’s "Feyd" interpretation didn’t convince me.

@HiuchiKiyoko 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's a complete departure from the novels. Neither his looks nor his motivations are consistent with the source material. It's basically the director's fanfiction at this point.

@gktde9874 3 ай бұрын

@@HiuchiKiyoko 🤝

@UNATCOHanka 3 ай бұрын

The better fighter didn't win. RIP Feyd Rautha he did his best but lost to an augmented Paul juiced up on spice.

@jc4jax 3 ай бұрын

the "better" fighter always win

@lobabobloblaw 3 ай бұрын

A cartoon character fought a flesh demon and lost. That’s what it was. That’s what it will always be.

@kremesauce 3 ай бұрын

Anyone care less about his accent and Elvis. Bad actor who couldn’t get rid of an accent from past roles. Can’t wait for his next movie so he talks about having to drop the accent from dune and he was saying the exact same thing for masters of the air

@joaocorreiamedia 3 ай бұрын

I honestly felt like casting him for Feyd was one of the worst decisions of the film. His portrayal of Feyd insipid and devoid of charisma. I don't know if it was due to the way Villeneuve directed him, or if it was his own choice of approach to the character, but it didn't work for me. I felt absolutely nothing when he died. I feel like this is part due to the way Villeneuve approached the Harkonens in Dune Part 2. They took a major backseat to Paul's story and had little to no development arc, which really shows its toll in the story when he kills the Baron and it feels like a minor moment in the story. I really feel like going with someone else for this role would've helped to have a more interesting Feyd in Part 2.

@thataintrightisit 3 ай бұрын

You’re like maybe one of 5 people ever that think this. He stole the scenes he was in. Bad take.

@joaocorreiamedia 3 ай бұрын

@@thataintrightisit I think I just had a clear idea how Feyd looked because of the books. I just feel like this Feyd felt like the most generic "bad guy" ever. It needed some charisma infused in the performance, but sadly... wasn't there.

@LFPAnimations 3 ай бұрын

Hard disagree. Feyd was easily one of the best parts of the movie for me.

@1marcelo 3 ай бұрын

what development arc have the Harkonen in the book?

@joaocorreiamedia 3 ай бұрын

@@1marcelo That's it. They have no arc. They're awful people and they die as awful people. But for a film, it doesn't translate as well as it does in the book. Villeneuve turned Chani into an anti fundamentalist, but in the book she has Paul's back the whole time. But in the film, it works well. For me, it becomes difficult to look at these characters solely based on the first book because I read them all and I followed their path when some characters return as ghoulas, like the Baron.

@TheJas20 3 ай бұрын

I kept chuckling multiple times throughout this interview, this guy doesn't look like a real human being. He acts like someone playing the role of "upcoming male star doing interview" and he's going for a over the top masculine approach, like a rockstar doing a perfume ad vibe. It's like he's doing a bad Johnny Depp impression, but Depp always comes off as a real sincere guy in interviews. Just be yourself my man, otherwise you look so pretentious lmao

@thataintrightisit 3 ай бұрын

Always gonna be some haters. This guy seems awesome.

@TheJas20 3 ай бұрын

@@thataintrightisitI'm not hating! i'm just saying. Seems like an alright kid.

@OurFantasyLife 3 ай бұрын

He mentioned in another interview that the preperation for Elvis was so intense that it actually changed his personality.

@1marcelo 3 ай бұрын

@@TheJas20 seems like an alright kid? He is world famous and extremely accomplished and you feel the need to be condescending with him? wow!

@DL-cs2cj 3 ай бұрын

@@1marcelono no you have to understand some random nobody has real pro tips for someone wildly more successful and ambitious