Yeah, it’s the amount of sway that you give over in those moments. This is a world where everything has stakes. So hopefully, on the one hand, characters are living full lives, but it also shows another lever of power. Sexuality in our show is both. It's a lever, I would say, that our Sisterhood is not afraid to pull.
What's your personal gauge on how far to push that aspect of it and when to pull back?
For us, I don't know that we're out to titillate explicitly. But at the same time, I don't want to shy away from our characters being able to have sex lives. I just want to do it with specificity, so it's rooted in the character.
It seems like we're coming out of a period where that really has been absent from TV and movies.
Well, first of all, it's really fun to be able to have your characters engage in the whole gamut, and not just violence. I think sex is also very visceral, and we don't want to shy away from it. We want to have it be another layer to the storytelling.
You even found a unique way to create a Dune love scene, involving the personal force fields used for hand-to-hand combat. Princess Ynez (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) has a very intense moment with her trainer, Keiran Atreides (Chris Mason). In the Dune lore, if you strike the shield, it blocks you—but if you move against it slowly, you can get through.
I thought it's very fun to have this princess who has so many feelings and is going to express them through her training. In some ways she communicates more freely through her sword play, and that is something that transpires between those two characters. They obviously have a lot of feelings for each other, so it felt like a natural moment to enjoy the technology and also give into a different kind of moment.
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