Austin Butler got the chance to meet Sting at the “Dune: Part Two” premiere. “He came to the premiere,” the younger actor said in a recent interview on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” “It was so surreal. My mind was blown. He’s the best.” While it’s always fun to see two different actors unite after playing the same character in different eras, Sting apparently didn’t just offer general encouragement to the new Feyd-Rautha. “I asked him about it, and he said he still has the codpiece from the original one,” Butler said. “He said he’s going to dry-clean it and let me wear it if I want to.”
It’s nice to see that Sting has a healthy sense of humor about the absurd costume piece these days. The 1984 movie wasn’t exactly a hit in its day. In fact, Lynch’s “Dune” bombed at the box office, and Sting’s codpiece was singled out by many as a particular point of humorous critique. In more recent years, sci-fi fans have embraced Lynch’s film as something of a cult classic, praising the strangeness that left viewers baffled upon its initial release.
Butler, fortunately, won’t have to go through that same era of scorn before he gets his flowers. His Feyd-Rauth is a lot less silly, and “Dune: Part Two” is already receiving incredible praise from audiences and critics alike, with some calling it one of the best blockbusters in years.
