When Dave Bautista first started working on “Dune: Part Two,” he claims to have been surprised by his co-star Austin Butler in a deeply emotional way. Evidently, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” star was intimidated by Butler, who was coming off his Oscar-nominated performance in “Elvis.” But Butler quickly surprised Bautista with how warm and affable he was. During one particular scene in “Part Two,” however, Butler’s ruthless assassin Feyd-Rautha is anything but kind to Bautista’s Rabban Harkonnen.
After Rabban, the leader of the Harkonnen forces on the planet Arrakis, continually tries and fails to root out and defeat the Fremen, Stellan Skarsgård’s Baron Vladimir Harkonnen replaces him with Feyd-Rautha. But the transition is not a smooth one, as Feyd-Rautha humiliates his predecessor by forcing him to kiss his boot in a tense scene that sees the once imposing Rabban suddenly reduced to an obsequious inferior to Butler’s villain.
Speaking to IGN, Bautista recalled a particular scene in the sequel wherein we “get to see the true essence of who Rabban is.” Though the outlet doesn’t confirm which moment the actor is referring to, it seems likely it’s this confrontation between Rabban and Feyd-Rautha, where the once intimidating Rabban is suddenly undermined. He continued:
“Most actors might look at that scene and be like, ‘I don’t want to do that’. And I read that scene and I was like, ‘Man, that’s great.’ Because that’s when you get to see the layers of the character and that’s when you get to see who Rabban really is.”
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