Timothée Chalamet Reveals How He Prepared for Dune: Part Three's Sacred Finale

Will SayreSun, February 22, 2026 at 3:11 AM UTC

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Among the red-hot actor's upcoming projects is Dune: Part Three, which hits theaters this December. While speaking with Academy Award-winner Matthew McConaughey at Variety and CNN's recent town hall event in Texas, Chalamet, 30, took time to reveal some new details about the final chapter of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi trilogy, in which he stars as Paul Atreides.

"On the first Dune, we had an ornithopter sequence that I got a chance to do again in the third, but this time I was way more geared up," Chalamet told the Dallas Buyers Club star, 56. "On Dune 3, as opposed to the first movie, I came out early and studied the control panel — all sorts of hieroglyphics and things that aren’t tethered to reality. I wanted to know what each button did, and invent a dynamic for myself with it."

The recent Golden Globe winner continued, "I didn’t want to be complacent about a single moment. Everything was sacred, and it was my last time doing a Dune film, so I really wanted to treat it as sacred. Because people can get complacent, but I was more intense on the third one. It felt like that was the natural momentum, so I wanted to push against that as hard as I could."

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Chalamet also commented on co-star Oscar Isaac's performance in the first movie as Paul Atreides' father.

“He treated it in a Shakespearean way — to play it heightened and not really care about it being heightened,” Chalamet said, adding that Isaac, 46, had encouraged him to take “more liberty than ever.”

The star of A Complete Unknown also admitted during the town hall that he's seen Interstellar (which stars McConaughey) a whopping "22 times or something" — and that the most recent screening was at his surprise 30th birthday, orchestrated by girlfriendKylie Jenner.

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