Dune: Part II might be up for Best Drama at the Golden Globes but Stellan Skarsgård feel it has already won. We talk to the Swedish legend about getting into the fat suit and being the patriarch of an acting dynasty
Stellan Skarsgård is not a competitive man. Even though Dune: Part Two is in the running for Best Drama at the Golden Globe awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, he believes that the team behind the film has already won. “I think being second is very good,” Skarsgård says on a phone call from his hometown of Stockholm, which he describes as ‘f***ing cold right now’. “The whole focus on being first and best and all that kind of competition takes away the focus from something that is more important, which is what you do,” he says.
So whichever film takes home the Globe, as Skarsgård playfully puts it, “the fat guy wins”. He’s to his character in Dune: the heavy-set Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who is a psychopathic power-hungry leader (he spends most of Dune: Part One in a gloopy oil bath). In Dune: Part Two, Baron Harkonnen proves once again his bloodthirst at a gladiatorial arena where his nephew, the sociopathic and sadistic Feyd-Rautha, played by Austin Butler, has a deadly fight just for the heck of it.