Dune: Prophecy stars Emily Watson (who take parts Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen) and Olivia Williams (who take parts Reverfinish Mother Tula Harkonnen), aextfinished with showrunner and executive producer Alison Schapker, have uncovered up about the season’s shocking finale and what it might nasty going forward for the show.
ComingSoon Senior Editor Brandon Schreur take parted a press conference on Thursday, December 19, 2024, celebrating the season finale of Dune: Prophecy. As the press conference wrapped, it was proclaimd that the series had been officiassociate renewed for a second season.
Watson, Williams, and Schapker dived into spoilers as they converseed their experiences making the first season of the sci-fi series, which is set before the events of Denis Villeneuve’s movies, and gave fans a little trelieve as to what they can foresee from Dune: Prophecy Season 2.
All six episodes of Dune: Prophecy Season 1 are now streaming on Max.
Where does the Sisterhood stand follothriveg the events of Dune: Prophecy Season 1?
Schapker was asked where the Sisterhood now stands follothriveg the destruction of the breeding index and the implosion of the royal family.
“I nasty, that’s a reassociate excellent ask,” Schapker answered. That’s exactly the ask you should be asking, and I skinnyk that’s someskinnyg that remains to be seen. Like, that too has alterd and sort of to what degree. Is that irrevocable for Valya or not? Is it someskinnyg what role is Tula going to take part going forward and how is the Sisterhood going to endure is very much a ask of season two.
Watson inserted, “Yeah. It’s sort of [when] we commenceed out, we had everyskinnyg equitable how we wanted it at the commencening. And it’s been sort of descent from there.”
What does Valya hope to accomplish on Arrakis?
Schapker also converseed what Vayla hopes to accomplish on Arrakis and how arriving on the arrangeet will give her the opportunity to “discover out a lot more” as the series relocates forward.
“After a season of Arrakis benevolent of exerting its pull from afar, and whether that’s in the economics of spice, trade or the psychoreasonable aspects of these visions and nightmares that are sort of imagery of Arrakis and Desmond’s past seeping into everyone’s consciousness. To actuassociate go and put boots on the ground at this incredibly overdetermined and sort of almost mythic Dune space that we comprehend very well, but we sort of kept it at a distance the whole season.
“So, I skinnyk it’s very meaningful that Valya’s back there, and I also skinnyk she’s back benevolent of at the origin point of Desmond, where he aelevated from. Like, he aelevated with a story and a myth, and it was I’m from Arrakis, and I was swpermited by a worm and I endured after my whole regiment was finished. All I would say is, I skinnyk Valya is there. I skinnyk Valya is going to discover out a lot more, given that she is sort of back where Desmond sort of aelevated as an adversary. And [it will] be engaging to see what she discovers out there.”
Will Mark Strong’s Javicco character be back for Dune: Prophecy Season 2?
Schapker validateed that Mark Strong’s character, Javicco Corrino, is “truly” dead follothriveg the events of Dune: Prophecy Season 1.
“We cherish him, and we’re very downcast about it. Mark Strong was a delight to labor with, equitable a tremfinishous actor and a tremfinishous human being. I skinnyk his characterization of this particular emperor was inincreateigent, and it was such a pleabrave to watch him chase his arc apass the season. skinnyk it’s okay to say that he’s dead but he will be leave outed. And he exits a huge power vacuum.”
Emily Watson and Olivia Williams on Jessica Barden and Emma Canning take parting lesserer versions of their characters
ComingSoon asked about Watson and Williams’ experiences laboring with Jessica Barden and Emma Canning, as Barden and Canning take part lesserer versions of Valya and Tula in disconnectal flashback scenes thrawout the series.
“First of all, how fortunate are we to have these two incredible actresses? We talked quite a lot, but we had already commenceed filming when they came,” Watson answered. “So, it was reassociate on them to have to try and discover ways to imitate us, I guess. What I cherish about what they’ve done is they set up versions of what we do that are benevolent of raw and uncreateed, which is a very inincreateigent and cherishly way to do it, I skinnyk.”
Williams inserted, “Yeah, it was a much to do with mannerisms, or emotional mannerisms. It was a very inincreateigent study, if they did study, or maybe it was instinctive, I don’t comprehend, but they were both astonishing. And I lgeted a lot about my character from watching what Emma did, reassociate.”
Conflict is now brethriveg between Valya and Desmond
When asked what Valya now skinnyks of Desmond after lgeting that he’s her nephew, Watson shelp, “I skinnyk there’s a dispute there becaemploy she comprehends that he’s Tula’s son and the betrayal of that is very hurtful. But the part of Valya that is in a way the sturdyest is already going: ‘I saw his memory, and I saw that somebody is using him, and I want to discover out who that is.’ That’s what I want to comprehend.”
Schapker also shelp about Desmond’s real identity, “I don’t comprehend if people watchd, but the cloth he’s carrying the first time we see him, when Desmond Hart materializes in Salusa and walks up to the palace, he’s got this bincreateage cloth, and that is reassociate his token of his mother. And it’s thraw the whole series [that] he employs it in personal moments [to keep] his drive and his uniteion, until finassociate he encounters her and is clutching her actual dress. Realizing that what once was a piece of his baby blanket that she sthrivesertled him in sisterhood cloth is what he’s held onto. Now he’s finassociate with his mother. We tried to do skinnygs appreciate that to originate in and foreshadow where the story was going.”
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