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Dave Bautista Fulfilled A Career Dream During Dune: Part Two
By JOE ROBERTS
Dave Bautista's role as Rabban "The Beast" Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies allows him to show off his acting chops while projecting his brutish strength.
This came to a head in one particular “Dune: Part Two” scene that the former WWE Champion feels put his acting commitment to the test.
When Dave Bautista first started working on "Dune: Part Two," he claims to have been surprised by how warm and affable his co-star Austin Butler was.
However, in one particular scene, Butler's ruthless assassin Feyd-Rautha is anything but kind. Bautista recalled to IGN how we "get to see the true essence of who Rabban is."
"Any big, tough guy could play this big, menacing, ominous brute. But when you add the layers to him, especially in that moment, that's a performer's dream,” Bautista said.
Bautista explained, “I've always said that I want to be an actor, I want to be a movie star. And it's moments like that where I get to say, I told you, you know?”