Half Three’ and Additionally That the Desert Is Very Scorching

Hollywood likes to tease tales about actors being in negotiations for main roles: assume Ryan Gosling in Star Wars: Starfighter or Robert Pattinson in The Batman. More often than not, as soon as we hear somebody’s within the dealmaking course of, it goes via, and we be taught extra concerning the film, together with extra casting after that. One other potential Pattinson function—the “chief villain” in Dune: Half Three—was rumored back in April however hadn’t been formally confirmed… till simply now, because of Pattinson casually mentioning it in an unrelated interview.

It occurred in an chat with IndieWire alongside Jennifer Lawrence, selling their new drama Die My Love. Each have been requested in the event that they get anxious whereas making ready for roles and likewise whereas juggling indie initiatives and big-budget films, and Pattinson joked that after doing “19 films in a row,” he’s discovered to relax out just a little—even when he’s immersed in excessive warmth.

“It’s truly very nice,” he informed IndieWire. “After I was doing Dune it was so sizzling within the desert that I simply couldn’t query something. And it was so stress-free, like my mind truly wasn’t working; I didn’t have a single functioning mind cell. And I used to be simply listening to Denis [Villeneuve]: ‘No matter you need!’”

He added, “I truly discovered it stress-free. Now I’m taking that into different roles.”

There’s been no announcement relating to who Pattinson will probably be taking part in in Dune: Half Three; his involvement was rumored so many months in the past, it was when folks have been nonetheless referring to the movie as Dune: Messiah. On the time, the Hollywood Reporter recommended, “Sources say the actor has been circling the function of the chief villain within the movie, one that’s presumably Scytale from Frank Herbert’s books.”

We’ve received a little bit of time to see if Pattinson will let particulars of his Dune function slip in one other interview, for the reason that film’s not hitting theaters till December 18, 2026.

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