In 2021 and 2024, director Denis Villeneuve adapted the “dune” of Frank Herbert’s science fiction in 1965 by Frank Herbert in 1965 On the big screen in a pair of live (and expensive) live feature films. “Dune”, as its many readers can tell you, is extremely complicated, requiring a special glossary of terms.

The book has tens of thousands of years in the future and surrounded a war on control of the planet Arrakis, known to a mysterious desert people called the Fremen and the only known source of A precious spice called melange. In the first novel “Dune”, the key sides in the running for control over Arrakis are the sweet atreid house and the nasty Harkonnen house. The two parties are variously manipulated by the Emperor of the Galaxy, Shaddam IV, as well as the insidious psychic witches known as Bene Gesserit.

“Dune” had already been adapted to the big screen by David Lynch in 1984, and was transformed into a pair of TV mini-series in 2000 and 2003. Villeneuve versions, however, were gigantic at the box office and have Even attracted a lot of attention from Oscar voters; The first “dune” was nominated for 10 Oscars and won six.

Rebecca Ferguson played Lady Jessica in the “Dune” films of Villeneuve, a former Gesserit de Bene and Co-Chief of House Atreids. During the two films “Dunes”, she would use her witch influence to manipulate the Fremen, leading them to see her son Paul (Timothee Chalamet) as their Messiah. Villeneuve’s film concerns the socio -political influence of the real world on the allocation of resources, and the way in which religion is often exercised for poorly recommendable political purposes.

There was a scene in the first “dune” when Lady Jessica was kidnapped, transported aboard a futuristic flying machine called ornithopter. Jessica was handcuffed and stuffed in a small freight taking, unable to move. It seems that Ferguson was becoming the shooting of this particular scene again because, as she revealed in An article from 2021 with EWIt is legitimately claustrophobic.

Halfway through the first “dune”, House Atreids is elected from her comfortable position as Arrakis leaders by an attack by House Harkonnen, and many family members are killed. Jessica is being kidnapped (with Paul) when thrown into the ornithopter mentioned above. Ferguson knows that she is a claustrophobic and can only play scenes in tight and expensive spaces if she knows that there is a hatch or an escape road to which she can access.

For “Dune”, however, Ferguson knew that because of the nature of the scene, there would be no way to put an end to the scene itself. This meant that she should face her fears headlines. In at least one socket, however, Ferguson admitted having panicked and getting out of the ornithopter set just to catch the breath. She described experience as this:

“I can’t be locked up. […] On each set, I always have to make sure that if they lock me in something, there must be an outing. […] In the ornithopter, there was a time when I panicked, and I literally got my foot and I just kicked the door. I needed to know that I could go out. “”

Despite the time of panic, it seems that Ferguson was able to finish the scene without other moments of fear. (Fear is the spirit killer, after all.) It also seems that the rest of the film was not as heavy, the greatest additional struggles from the heat and sand of the Jordanian deserts.

It remains to be seen if “dune: the second part” will be nominated for all Oscars. It was, however, one of the greatest successes of 2024, earning more than $ 714 million worldwide. So he wins anyway.