Austin Butler downsized on the approach acting for ‘Dune: Part Two’.
The 32-year-old star plays the bad guy Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi follow up however didn’t go as deeply into the character as he did when starring in ‘Elvis’, when he declined to desert the music icon’s distinct drawl.
Austin informed the Los Angeles Times paper: “I’ve absolutely in the past, with ‘Elvis’, checked out living within that world for 3 years which being the only thing that I consider day and night.
“With Feyd, I understood that would be unhealthy for my friends and family.”
He continued: “So I made a mindful choice to have a border. It permitted more flexibility in between action and cut due to the fact that I understood I was going to secure everyone else beyond the context of what we were doing.
“That’s not to state that it does not bleed into your life. I understood that I wasn’t going to do anything harmful exterior of that border, and in a method that enabled me to go deeper.”
Villeneuve explained teaming up with Butler as “enormously lively” and believed the star mastered the balance of remaining in and out of character.
The filmmaker stated: “When the cam was on, it resembled you were had. When the video camera was off, you were still possibly 25 or 30 percent Feyd.
“Just sufficient to still exist and focus however got rid of enough that you didn’t eliminate anyone on set.”
Austin formerly exposed that he didn’t wish to imitate Sting by using winged underclothing in the function – simply as the Police frontman did when playing Feyd-Rautha in David Lynch’s 1984 variation of ‘Dune’.
The ‘Bikeriders’ star stated: “I believe he did them a lot justice that I needed to do something totally of my own [laughs]How do you follow that? I believe he looks fantastic in them … I like that film, and I enjoy Sting as an artist and as a star. I feel honoured to be embodying this function that he had the chance to.”