Man of the moment Austin Butler regularly tops the charts on highly regarded “sexiest man alive” polls. But in his latest role in Dune: Part 2, Butler plays a Voldemort-adjacent eyebrowless villain with black teeth, a bald head, and a penchant for disembowelling women.
We caught up with him at the film’s London premiere to find out what it was like going from heartthrob to Harkonnen. “It was freeing,” he said, “because you’re not trying to be anything else”. The best part about it, apparently, was the bald cap. “It was so nice not to have hair. Especially after Elvis, where the hair was everything”.
