Sting played the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in 1984’s Dune, which costarred Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet’s character) and envisioned the villain as a red-haired man. Denis Villeneuve’s new Dune movies split the iconic 1965 Frank Herbert novel into two parts, and as such, Feyd-Rautha did not appear in 2021’s Dune: Part One. Trailers for the new movie tease him as a primary antagonist for Chalamet, 28, in the sequel.
Butler said, “I met him last night, he came to the premiere. It was so surreal. My mind was blown. He’s the best,” Butler said of meeting the former Police singer/bassist, 72, who previously played Butler’s Dune character Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in filmmaker David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune.
In the new movie, Butler portrays the character as a completely bald and ruthless killer. “The thing with a villainous character — I’d never played a character quite like him, and I didn’t want to judge him, so it was a lot of imagining what his childhood was like,” Butler said of adapting to the role on The Tonight Show.
