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Actor: Rebecca Ferguson

Rebecca Ferguson played Ilsa Faust across three Mission: Impossible films and Lady Jessica in Dune, and Doctor Sleep gave her a genuinely frightening antagonist. She is Swedish, came from a soap opera, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for The White Queen.

Dune Parts 1 & 2 film posterOscar Isaac

Dune Parts 1 & 2 Review

From inside the book, these are the right criticisms. The short version: Villeneuve made two visually extraordinary films that get many of the big things right and a handful of things badly wrong.

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