Stellan Skarsgård plays Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dune and Dune: Part Two, a character that required eight hours of makeup a day.
Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve once again has Stellan Skarsgård in the cast, the actor who played the role of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in the first film of the saga and who reprises his role in his sequel.
Stellan Skarsgård has starred in dozens of productions, but there are two characters that stand out especially in his filmography because of how much they modify their features.
One is the baron Vladimir Harkonnen the Dune saga, and the other is Bill Turner in the saga of Pirates of the Caribbeanfor which he had to become a broken member of the crew of Davy Jones in it Flying Dutchmanwith his face covered in barnacles.
Stellan Skarsgård has always been a great defender of makeup over digital effects, and for the Pirates of the Caribbean saga he decided to spend six hours in makeup to have the prosthesis applied before putting some stitches on his face for motion capture that would replace his features with digital ones.
How Stellan Skarsgård became Vladimir Harkonnen
“It was painful, but it was worth it.“, remember Stellan Skarsgård from his time in Pirates. “We wanted his image to be so well defined that she would leave an impression on people just by appearing on the screen. And that mark had to last throughout the film.”
“I was the only one on the set who was wearing real prosthetics,” explained the actor. Dune: Part Two. “The rest of the world on that boat would show up five minutes before we started filming, and they'd have stitches in their faces and they'd leave. I'd been there six hours. But the thing is, I like it. I like watching the crew paint. artists”.
Stellan Skarsgård wanted to repeat that experience in the two films of Dune of Denis Villeneuveeven if it had to ber eight hours before in makeup to get ready.
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