Stellan Skarsgård

And everybody in the system were lying about everything in the nuclear reactor system because facts didn't count.

Yeah.

And it was also important to not rock the boat, not draw attention from your superiors, and not sort of be controversial in any way.

Sit still in the boat.

But...

When he discovers the unfathomable size of this catastrophe, he gradually comes to his senses and realizes that we've made this ourselves.

And that's an interesting character to play.

And then, of course, he realizes eventually that he'll die as well.

But to him, the big revelation is not that he's going to die.

It's that the system that he has been serving all his life is flawed.

Well, it took eight hours of makeup.

Eight hours?

Wow.

Eight hours.

It is a lot of prosthetics.

I mean, I added 40 kilos of foam to my weight.

I'm playing this character.

fat monster, Harkonnen, and he's an emperor and he has one job in the film, and that is to be the sort of the very epitome of evil.

And he is.

You don't care about his psychological motives or where he was wounded as a kid or whatever.