Dune 2's Stellan Skarsgard Says Baron Harkonnen's Massive Prosthetics Made His Performance Better
Dune: Part Two star Stellan Skarsgard is an actor we all know very well at this point–his career has been both prolific and varied, popping up in everything from mega-budgeted blockbusters like The Avengers to tiny art films like Nymphomaniac–as well as everything in between, like the Mama Mia movies. But these Dune flicks feature a particularly memorable role for Skaarsgard, because of the elaborate prosthetic suit he had to wear to portray the post-human, worm-like character. Imagine if Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars had begun his life as a regular human man and gradually altered himself into becoming a giant slug over time. That’s Baron Harkonnen!
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“How do you do your job with 40 kilos of prosthetics on? It is tough, but the thing is that it hinders you in a way, but it also becomes something like the real fat it would have been that is also a hindrance. And you use the resistance of the costume to make him slower, to make him become more dangerous in a way,” Skarsgard told me.
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