Austin Butler Reveals His Reaction to the Shaved Eyebrow Look in Dune 2 – Republic World

Austin Butler recently reunited with his Dune: Part Two co-stars and discussed his thoughts on his dramatic makeover for Dune: Part Two, where he plays Fayed-Routha, the brother of Gloucester Rabban (Dave Bautista) and his heir. Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), looks unrecognizable without eyebrows. The actor shared that it was “liberation without an eyebrow”.

Austin Butler on his no-eyebrow look

Butler shared her transformational insight while appearing on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! He said, “It was so freeing not to have eyebrows… You don’t realize how much weight they give you. I was just trim.” The actor revealed that he didn’t even need to shave his eyebrows for the role.

“I was going to work right away,” the actor added, “and this director named Jeff Nichols said, ‘They can afford to make you a bald cap but we can’t really do your hair. So, do you just have a bald cap?’ So I did it.”

Why did Austin Butler go bald for Dune 2?

Butler, who was joined by her co-stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya Coleman and Florence Pugh, added that the ‘Dune’ hair and makeup team created a special bald cap to hide her eyebrows.

“It was three hours a day,” he said of the time it took to prepare it, “and that’s when they brought it down.” The Golden Globe Award winner goes completely bald to play the villain Fayed-Routha.

Fayed-Routh is the evil nephew of Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) and the brother of the sadistic Glosu Rabban, played by Dave Bautista. Sting previously played the role in David Lynch’s 1984 film adaptation.

(With inputs from IANS)