Emily Watson and Olivia Williams both have decades of acting experience, but they're still trying new things – namely, joining a big sci-fi franchise like Dune. Both actors have backgrounds in theater, as well as big-screen roles in movies like Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves and Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love for Watson and Wes Anderson's Rushmore and Carey Mulligan-led An Education for Williams.
So what was it like joining a sprawling genre franchise at this stage of their careers? "It's kind of great and also a little bit intimidating, because we're both used to the currency of, I guess, critical mass," Watson explains. "So, you do things that are well regarded and they gain momentum, whereas something like this is just, boom, it's out there. And that feels different."
