Denis Villeneuve brings together Timothée Chalamet and Kyle Maclachlan to pay tribute to David Lynch
The two performers of Paul Atreids participated in a dream photo shoot.
Almost 40 years separate the two cinematographic adaptations novel Dune by Frank Herbert. David Lynch is the first director to have tackled the science fiction paved in 1984, With Kyle Maclachlan in the role of Paul Atreids. If it Dune-The way was not a great success, Denis Villeneuve took over in 2021 with Timothée Chalamet. Appointed in ten categories during the 94th Oscar ceremony, The film wins Six prices, And becomes a success that is both critical and commercial. For Lynch, Dune was the cursed film of his brilliant career.
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On the occasion of a project For the magazine Wthe Quebec director decides bring together the two generations of Paul Atreids. He declares: “I love the idea of a young bartender who gives his double drinking”. Originally, Villeneuve wanted the mysterious customer to be David Lynch in person. Unfortunately it is Died on January 15, Before a meeting is possible between the two directors.
The idea of inviting Kyle Maclachlan, Lynch’s favorite actorseemed a good way of him pay tribute. “I hope this shooting may be, in part, a love letter to its inheritance”expresses Denis Villeneuve to W. Timothée Chalamet and Kyle Maclachlan had already met before, during the Oscar ceremony in 2022. Villeneuve recounts his memory:
“He presented himself in Timmy (Chalamet) and was very generous about his performance in Dune. It is also my experience: when I called Kyle about this shoot, I felt that he was happy to celebrate both Timmy and David Lynch ”.
Greig Fraser, the photographic director of Dune From Villeneuve, photographed the two spiritual twins. The shots offer games of light and mirror, thus creating a dreamlike atmospherelike Lynch. In one of the portraits, the face of Timothy Chalamet blends with that of Kyle Maclachlan. The actor of Blue Velvet slightly like to the master of surrealismwith her brushed hair in volume. The orange color recalls that of the Arrakis desert.
