What Character Is Anya Taylor-Pleasure Enjoying?

Dune: Half Two, the upcoming sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 sci-fi epic primarily based on the Frank Herbert novels, is releasing in simply two weeks, however one way or the other the workforce behind it stored one main star’s involvement a complete secret. Throughout the February 15 world premiere in London, The Queen’s Gambit actor Anya Taylor-Pleasure appeared on the pink carpet to substantiate that she is, certainly, a member of the sequel’s forged. This got here after an eagle-eyed Letterboxd consumer seen that Dune: Half Two was listed below Taylor-Pleasure’s credit on the evaluate aggregation app.

Selection confirmed that Taylor-Pleasure is part of the forged, which incorporates Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Zendaya as Chani, Rebecca Ferguson as Woman Jessica, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha, and lots of extra large Hollywood stars. However, Selection refused to “spoil” who Taylor-Pleasure is taking part in, and it doesn’t seem that anybody else is keen to say who, both.

Besides me. Dune novel spoilers beneath, however let’s be actual, the e book got here out in 1965.

Anya Taylor-Pleasure might be Alia Atreides in Dune: Half Two 

First, an try at a short Dune synopsis. Within the far future, an interstellar society is comprised of noble homes whose fiefdoms are total planets. The Atreides household, led by Duke Leto (performed by Oscar Isaac in Dune: Half One), is ordered to take a harsh desert planet often called Arrakis as its new fief. Although the planet is nearly inhospitable, it’s the solely supply of the extremely wanted useful resource often called “spice,” a psychedelic drug that’s utilized in area navigation. However as quickly because the Atreides household arrives on Arrakis, it’s clear that they’ve walked right into a lure set by the rival Home Harkonnen, who desires to wipe them out solely.

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As seen in Dune: Half One, the Harkonnens’ plan leads to Leto’s demise, and forces Paul and his mom, Jessica, to flee into the desert. It’s there that they arrive into contact withe the Fremen, Arrakis’ native individuals who have realized thrive (not simply survive) on the tough planet. There’s a complete messianic factor that I can’t even start to get into, however what’s necessary right here with reference to Taylor-Pleasure is that this: Jessica is pregnant, and submits to the “spice agony,” a ritual the place she takes a lethal quantity of spice. As a result of she’s with baby, the newborn is uncovered to the spice in utero, and is born possessing all of the information of a completely grown grownup.

Alia Atreides seems to be and feels like a toddler, however is a full-blown Reverend Mom, the best tier attainable amongst the Bene Gesserit (a matriarchal order that has non secular and political energy). In David Lynch’s Dune from 1984, Alia is performed by a toddler actor, however I believe (particularly when seeing what Taylor-Pleasure wore to the premiere, and the way it compares to what Alia wears in Lynch’s movie) that Villeneuve has found out a technique to current Alia as an grownup.

I await affirmation that I’m appropriate.