Dune: Part Two star Stellan Skarsgard is an actor we all know very well at this point--his career has been both prolific and varied, popping up in everything from mega-budgeted blockbusters like The Avengers to tiny art films like Nymphomaniac--as well as everything in between, like the Mama Mia movies. But these Dune flicks feature a particularly memorable role for Skaarsgard, because of the elaborate prosthetic suit he had to wear to portray the post-human, worm-like character. Imagine if Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars had begun his life as a regular human man and gradually altered himself into becoming a giant slug over time. That's Baron Harkonnen!
"How do you do your job with 40 kilos of prosthetics on? It is tough, but the thing is that it hinders you in a way, but it also becomes something like the real fat it would have been that is also a hindrance. And you use the resistance of the costume to make him slower, to make him become more dangerous in a way," Skarsgard told me.