‘Dune: Prophecy’ Stars Reveal More Information About the Series

Dennis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi classic, Dune, is something truly remarkable, as the numbers and the reviews confirm. Both critics and fans have praised the two films that have been released thus far, praising the world that the Canadian director has managed to create.

A third movie, Dune: Messiah, is currently being worked on, and while we’re waiting for that, we’ll get to enjoy a prequel series set in the same universe.

Dune: Prohpecy finally premiered on November 17, 2024, and the series is set to explore the world of Villeneuve’s films many years before the current timeline, showing us how – more or less – the same issues are constantly plaguing that same universe.

In light of that, Collider recently spoke with Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Josh Heuston, and Chris Mason, who are playing Princess Ynez, Constantine Corrino, and Swordmaster Keirnan Atreides in the series. In this report, we are going to bring you the most interesting details from the interview!

As said, the series’ three young stars sat down for a talk with Collider to discuss the series, and they talked about some interesting topics in the interview, and we will bring you the most interesting bits.

Sarah-Sofie, I’m gonna come back your way because there’s one particular detail from Episode 1 that was really curious to me because I feel like, more often than not, we see a princess basically being forced down a certain path by her parents, and given a particular conversation she has, that doesn’t seem to be the case with her. What is her number one want at the beginning of the show, and does she think that want, if she gets it, will make her happy?

BOUSSNINA: That’s a really good question. I think her number one want is that she wants to go study at the Sisterhood because she does want to live up to her position. She’s proud to be a Corrino. She’s proud to be the heir to the Golden Lion Throne, and she wants to be the future ruler one day. (…)

I don’t know that she thinks about that, to be honest. She wants to be the kind of ruler that she dreams about. I think a lot of people can identify with seeing your parents do things a certain way, and you want to do things a different way. [Laughs] That’s very much how she feels. She wants to bring power to her house, and she wants the Corrino family to be a strong and powerful house, and she thinks she can do that. 

Source: Collider

Heuston was also asked about his character, i.e., whether he was just an “Imperial playboy” or a character with more depth:

Josh, I have the opposite type of question for you because someone in Episode 1 mentions that Constantine is a man with no purpose. Is that perception just an outsider’s view or does he, deep down, have a purpose, and does he know it?

HEUSTON: Constantine has a desire for purpose. And I think where you see him in the early stages of the series, he’s kind of navigating that. He’s still trying to find his feet. He can’t rise to the heights of Ynez, but then he still has ambitions and he still wants his father’s approval and wants respect from not just him, but everyone in the Imperium, because at that stage he has a reputation for being a bit of a playboy and not having ambition and getting up to no good.

So, for him, he’s trying to aspire to have something like that, but he hasn’t yet found the path there.

Finally, Collider asked Chris Mason about his role in the series, which seemingly foreshadows the role Paul is playing in the movies:

Chris, I’m fascinated by the role of Swordmaster. Generally speaking, can you define what it means to have that title, and then also, what does having that title mean to Keiran specifically?

MASON: As far as soldiers go and sword combat, he’s the pinnacle, and the position that comes with that is to be the emperor’s personal swordmaster attributed with training the family and also going to war when that arises, and fighting for the family, too. So, it’s a pretty big title that he’s got, but one that he’s more than capable of dealing with.

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