Travis Fimmel is no stranger to on-screen violence. He played Vikings' Ragnar Lothbrok, and now he's taking on the role of mysterious solider Desmond Hart in new prequel series Dune: Prophecy. Working for Emperor Javicco Corrino (Mark Str🅷ong), Desmond has strong convictions, if cryptic motivations – and he'll go to any lengths to fulfill what he believe✤s is his greater purpose.
"I enjoy making the reasons why people are ❀violent, or the reason why people fight," Fimmel tells GamesRadar+ when we ask how Dune: Prophecy compares to Vikings when it comes to brutality. "To make it high stakes enough and to get behind a character, or to want to pl✃ay a character, you really gotta make it meaningful to carry out such acts. But a lot of the way, it hurts him hurting other people. It hurts him physically and emotionally. But, at the same time, I think he sort of gets off on it."
Physically brutalౠ acts aren't the only forms of violence in Dune: Prophecy, either. "I think when Alison [Schapker, showrunner] writes these characters, they always have so much depth to them," Fimmel's co-star Jodhi May, who plays the Emperor's wife Empress Natalya adds.
"Similarly, I think as a portrait of motherhood, Empress Natalya is a very unconventional example of that. I like the fact that she examines this mother-daughter relationship that is full of conflict and a mother who is not necessarily always particularly maternal," she continues, referring 💦to her character's relationship with her daughter, Princess Ynez (ꩵSarah-Sofie Boussnina).
"It's an alterꩲnative representation of motherhood, but there's an emotional violence in there, and there's an emotional violence in the Sisterho✨od because there's so much about repression. It's about this discipline of channeling your emotions, but also repressing them."
Dune: Prophecy premieres on HBO and Max on November 17 and releases the following day on Sky and NOW in the UK. For more, check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune: Prophecy release schedule and our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dune: Prophecy review.
