JODHI MAY: Yeah, I suppose there is a similarity.
I do love Queen Calanthe because she’s just this warrior queen with this brilliantly deadpan sense of humor.
How is their arrangement really stretched to its breaking point in these last couple of episodes?
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I guess it’s just [Javicco’s] inaction, isn’t it?
Do you think it stems from a Sister being in there, manipulating her husband?
Or does it run deeper?
MAY: They’re both outsiders.
I think it’s his vulnerability that she’s drawn to.
You never know with Natalya how that’s going to play out.
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MAY: The kiss is complex, isn’t it?
In a sense, it’s about extreme circumstances.
To some extent in that scene, they’re the mirror image of each other.
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So I think she really identifies with him.
I would sayit’s somewhere between sympathy and maybe strategy.
It does seem to embolden Natalya in the following scene with Javicco.
Set in the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune series, this sci-fi epic follows the political and spiritual struggles on the desert planet of Arrakis. As factions vie for control of the prized spice melange, a prophesied hero emerges, challenging the balance of power and the fate of the galaxy.
Does she feel like she can seize control in that moment because she has Desmond in her corner?
She has absolutely strategized to a certain degree.
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She’s just there at the right time to take both of those pieces off the board.
MAY: That’s a really interesting question, isn’t it?
Because there is an empty seat.
So it throws up all sorts of interesting possibilities.
It’s an act that’s not necessarily premeditated, but the opportunity was there and she took it.
It’s more about, again, attacking the Sisterhood rather than any individual.
All episodes ofDune: Prophecyare available to stream on Max.
Season 2 will premiere at a date yet to be announced.
