Uh, another huge project that you're in right
now is Villeneuve's Dune.
Remake, reboot, re-imagining?
It is, yes, I would say all of the above.
Okay.
The, uh, I love David Lynch, but it's not
the 1984 film, no, this is Denis' interpretation
of the Frank Herbert novel, Dune, which is
an incredible book.
I mean, the thing about Dune that makes it
so- it's brilliant sci-fi.
I mean, character development, the twists,
the plot turns, and the themes in it, and
some of the big ideas that are at work in
Dune are really fascinating to me as a reader,
as an audience member, but one of the things
that always blew my mind about the book Dune,
was that Herbert writes his characters in
every kind of situation, every interaction
between the characters, from not just one
or two levels of perspective.
I feel like there's three, sometimes four
levels of perspective.
He really turns every interaction inside out
and every character has so many levels to it.
There's no hundred percent good-guy, 
hundred percent bad-guy.
It's a muddy world, and it's a philosophically
challenging world, and it's all wrapped up
in this incredible space adventure.
And the fact that Denis has invited me to
be a part of his film.
And I'm playing Piter De Vries, who is this
sadistic, human computer, who is so driven
by an intention that is quite different than
any other character
I've ever gotten to play before.
It's crazy, man!
It's like, yeah, and Denis a- he's a genius,
I feel like he's our generation's Stanley
Kubrick, if you will.
I feel like, 'cause he works in so many different
genres, and they're all masterpieces.
I've never- I've yet to see a Denis Villeneuve
film that didn't bowl me over.
And working with him as an actor, I've gotten
the honor of doing it twice now, is a really
safe place to create.
He lets you and encourages you to just go
wherever you want to go and he helps shape
you and guide you and he's like from another
world.
I don't know what I did right to be so lucky
that I get to do this.
Well you are a very nice man, so I feel like
that helps a little bit.
Well...
Did ya hear that, mom?
Thank you, mom.
