Arrival director Denis Villeneuve has just added another phenomenal actor to the cast of his Dune movie. Per The Hollywood Reporter, legendary actress Charlotte Rampling (Dexter, Red Sparrow, a whole lot of other stuff stretching back to the ’60s) will take on the role of Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, a powerful Bene Gesserit truthsayer.
Dune author Frank Herbert describes the character in detail:
"An old woman in a black aba robe with hood drawn down over her forehead detached herself from the Emperor’s suite, took up station behind the throne, one scrawny hand resting on the quartz back. Her face peered out of the hood like a witch caricature — sunken cheeks and eyes, an overlong nose, skin mottled and with protruding veins."
The Reverend Mother leads the Bene Gesserit Chapterhouse and is part of the Emperor’s personal retinue. She is very powerful, has the blue-in-blue eyes of someone with a Melange (Spice) addiction, and often uses her powers to control others through emotional and voice manipulation. If I were to pick an actress to play this role, Charlotte Rampling would be my first and only choice.
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Rampling will join Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Harkonnen, Dave Bautista as Glossu “the Beast” Rabban Harkonnen, Rebecca Ferguson as the Lady Jessica, and Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides.
Villeneuve’s Dune movie will cover the first half of the first Dune novel, when House Atreides arrives on Arrakis and is betrayed by someone close to the family. A lot happens during this time, and it’s extremely important for Villeneuve to get every character — and the planet of Dune itself — just right. If Villeneuve follows Herbert’s detailed template outline, the movie should turn out just fine.
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