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 by some means the workforce behind it stored one main star’s involvement a complete secret. Through the February 15 world premiere in London, The Queen’s Gambit actor Anya Taylor-Pleasure appeared on the purple carpet to substantiate that she is, certainly, a member of the sequel’s forged. This got here after an eagle-eyed Letterboxd user noticed that Dune: Half Two was listed beneath Taylor-Pleasure’s credit on the overview 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 Girl Jessica, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha, and plenty of extra large Hollywood stars. However, Selection refused to “spoil” who Taylor-Pleasure is enjoying, and it doesn’t seem that anybody else is prepared to say who, both.

Besides me. Dune novel spoilers under, however let’s be actual, the guide got here out in 1965.

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

First, an try at a quick Dune synopsis. Within the far future, an interstellar society is comprised of noble homes whose fiefdoms are whole 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 known as Arrakis as its new fief. Although the planet is nearly inhospitable, it’s the solely supply of the extremely wanted useful resource often known as “spice,” a psychedelic drug that’s utilized in house 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 ends in Leto’s loss of life, 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 discovered tips on how to thrive (not simply survive) on the cruel planet. There’s a complete messianic factor that I can’t even start to get into, however what’s essential 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 little one, the child is uncovered to the spice in utero, and is born possessing all of the data of a totally grown grownup.

Alia Atreides appears to be like and seems like a baby, however is a full-blown Reverend Mom, the very best tier attainable amongst the Bene Gesserit (a matriarchal order that has spiritual and political energy). In David Lynch’s Dune from 1984, Alia is performed by a baby 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 discovered a technique to current Alia as an grownup.

I await affirmation that I’m right.