‘Dune’ Star Stephen McKinley Henderson on Playing a Human Computer and That Parasol

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‘Dune’ Star Stephen McKinley Henderson on Playing a Human Computer and That Parasol
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The veteran actor reveals a signature prop made it to the screen after Denis Villeneuve happened to see it between takes: 'Oh, I deeply love that.'

movie his entire life and that he had meticulously prepared so much of what ended up on the screen. But the moment when he realized that Villeneuve was a special filmmaker was when he embraced an unusual detail during their downtime on set.

“It was a very hot day in Hungary, and the makeup people knew that I might burn or something. So they brought me this little frilly parasol that they had,” Henderson shares. “And when I was using it, Denis saw me sitting there with it and he said, ‘Oh, I deeply love that.’ Then he said, ‘How do you feel about it?’ And I said, ‘I love it, man. I love it.

Henderson also reveals a deleted scene between Paul and Hawat after the latter’s oversight resulted in a Harkonnen hunter-seeker that nearly killed the young heir of House Atreides. “I don’t know whether it’s still in the film or not, but in the script that we had, Paul said to him, ‘It was also what you taught me that made me triumphant over that hunter-seeker,'” Henderson says. “So that’s the only thing that helped him get off the hook, but that resignation was a sincere desire to say, ‘Get someone else because I care that much.'”

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