As was foretold in Fatboy Slim ’s “ Weapon of Choice ” music TV , in which Christopher Walken dance to a line from Dune ( “ Walk without calendar method of birth control , It wo n’t attract the louse ” ) , the actor would be destined to join Frank Herbert ’s sci - fi universe inDenis Villeneuve ’s acclaimed adaptation . In fact , Dune : Part Twobrought Walken out of a four - year acting gap .
In an audience withVanity Fair , Walken talk about why he deal on the role of the unnerving Emperor who sets in motionthe nightfall and rise of House Atreides in Dune . “ I had , of course , seen the first Dune a number of times . I be intimate it , and I admire [ Villeneuve ’s ] flick . Arrival , I thought , was wonderful . And to be with all those terrific actors — Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin , Timothée Chalamet , Florence Pugh , and Stellan Skarsgård — and to go to Budapest , which is a beautiful urban center . And of course , that ’s what I do for a living . It was only , I think , three workweek . So , everything about it was attractive , ” he enounce to the cartridge clip .
Walken , who had somehow not yet been outflank up by a sci - fi epic , also expose that he was almost in Star Wars but the timing was n’t right . “ I think it was for Han Solo , ” Walken partake in . “ Yes , I try out for it . And if I ’m not mistaken , my partner in the audition was — I think this is truthful — it was Jodie Foster . I think we did a screen test . I ’m not sure we did a scene . Maybe we just sit in front of , in those days , those old videotape cameras … I did sense of hearing for Star Wars , but so did about 500 other doer . It was lots of multitude doing that . ” But as was fated by “ artillery of Choice , ” Walken was all along meant to be the Emperor in Dune .
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