"It was funny trying to figure out in this futuristic space talk, like, how do they flirt? What does that look like for a space warrior and the young duke of a planet? How do they show that they like each other? What does that even sound like? We were definitely trying to navigate that, which was funny because all of us were stumped. I think it’s just as foreign to us as it probably is to the characters.”
“Awkward and uncomfortable—there’s all those things.”
“I was like, Does Chani get awkward? Does that happen to her? Does she know what that feels like?”
--Zendaya, on Chani Kynes in Dune: Part 2 (2023)
lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship
Sofia Subramaniam by Christine Hahn via Instagram
“Although I write books, it always astonishes me that people write books. It’s strange to imagine the people one loves laboriously gathering words together, absent from the world for such a long time.”
— Alejandro Zambra, from ‘Travelling With Books’, Not to Read (trans. Megan McDowell)
some of my fave dune letterboxd reviews lol
Cindy Kimberly as Santanico Pandemonium