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The Dune movies hold a singular place in Zendaya’s memory. She has, after all, starred in three of them. And as she admits to a wide assembly of press during a special event revealing the Dune: Part Three trailer, they mark a crucial part of her life.
“These movies have meant so much to me over the years,” Zendaya considers. “I literally have been able to grow up in my entire 20s doing them, so they have a special place in my heart, and all these people do as well.” The Emmy-winning star is referring to familiar faces around her on the day, including director Denis Villeneuve and co-star Javier Bardem, as well as perhaps some new ones like Anya Taylor-Joy and Robert Pattinson. Then again, as Pattinson reveals, their history between Dune movies might have been the competitive edge he needed to join the cast on Arrakis.
“I absolutely adored these movies, I saw them multiple times in the theater,” Pattinson reveals. “And I think I was talking to you [Zendaya] on the set of The Drama, and I was like, ‘How do I get into one of those Dune movies?’”
Pattinson is referring to his and Zendaya’s new peculiar, and most likely surrealist, dramedy from A24 and writer-director Kristoffer Borgli (Dream Scenario). An intimate character piece, it wouldn’t necessarily cause many to immediately think “Dune,” however Zendaya half-jokes that when Pattinson asked about the and movies, she said, “I know a guy.”
“It was a very unexpected call a few months later,” Pattinson adds about when the offer came from director Villeneuve. “And I kind of do think you had something to do with it.”
Zendaya is quick to point to Villeneuve as deserving the real credit, however the truth is it probably never hurts to have a good reference, which Zendaya and Pattinson probably qualify as for each other since the duo has three movies coming out this year, starting with The Drama, continuing in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and culminating in Dune: Part Three.
The third Dune film comes out on Dec. 18, 2026.
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