I believe this was the third time I've rewatched the second Villeneuve Dune film. Due less to me loving it and more there being nothing else I wanted to watch.
About the casting, the actress playing Lady Jessica is too young to be believable as Paul Atriedes' mother. She looks and acts more like an older sister. The actress playing Chani is believably third world but someone - Villeneuve? - rethought her character and made her an anticolonial activist, which author Frank Herbert never imagined. This is "woke" rearing its ugly head.
Oddly, Christopher Walken is a good choice for the Emperor, and the Harkonnens are well cast as uniformly evil but of varying degrees of smart to go with it.
