Go Behind the Scenes of Dune: Part Two with Babs Olusanmokun

Leisure 13 March, 2024 20:28

“Being on this set was incredible,” Babs Olusanmokun says of Dune: Part Two, which is in theaters now. “You get to go to these incredible places—from Budapest to Abu Dhabi—and be part of these amazing places in nature and tell a beautiful story using them, which is just fantastic.”

Olusanmokun plays the Fremen warrior Jamis in the movie, and as his character died in a battle with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) in the first of director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune installments, it wasn’t guaranteed that he’d return for the second. “Denis point blank told me at the end of Part One, ‘you're gone,’” Olusanmokun says. “So, for him to switch gears before we finished Part One and say, ‘I want you back when I do Part Two’ was a special thing.”

For Olusanmokun, who’ll next star in the upcoming Guy Ritchie film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, the joy of making Dune wasn’t only what he got to do on camera, but the experienced he had behind the scenes as well. “You look at these landscapes, and are like, wow, I am really just a speck of dust,” he says.

Here, Olusanmokun opens his camera roll to T&C to share a behind-the-scenes look at Dune: Part Two, and the moments that didn’t make it on screen."Here I am with Roger Yuan, who plays Lanville in the movie and was also our fight choreographer. The day before this photo was taken, I was like, 'man, we've got to go see Petra,' because we were in Aqaba, Jordan, just two hours or so by car. So, we went to Petra and walked through this civilization from a this time way, way before us. It was just glorious—the color of the stones, the beautiful landscape, the architecture, they've done a wonderful job of keeping it together. It really reminds you of your relationship to the history of this Earth of ours.