It was a difficult role to cast
because he had to be young
he had to be princely.
This is the Reverend Mother
Gaius Helen Mohiam
She's going to observe you
And Kyle, Kyle kind of,
you know,
worked after we saw many many
many different people
he had that charisma.
Precise Control
Dune and I actually have a history before
the film, I was a big fan of the books
by Frank Herbert, when I was, I
guess I discovered them around 15,
when I was 15 years old
and took to them immediately, I'd never
been a science-fiction fan really but I,
just something about it,
maybe it was because the age of the
character in the book was similar to my
age, fifteen or so,
but I really really responded to it
cut to about, I guess, eight years later
I was working in Seattle in a play just
graduated from school earlier that year
from my training and
I got a call, I received
a call on my message machine
in Seattle, from a
casting agent who had
come to Seattle and was looking for
unknown actors at that time
to audition for the role of Paul
and she had called around to various
theatres, and as I was performing there
I was sort of known at that time in 
Seattle, all be it in a very small capacity
and so my name came up as a
potential, you know, auditionee
so there was I was, I meet
with the casting lady
Elizabeth Leustig is her name
and she recorded me
and doing this very odd audition because
up to that point I'd only been really
stage trained and didn't really understand
this relationship to the camera
and but she was very
encouraging and helpful
and she took my tape down to
David Lynch and Rafaella De Laurentiis
at Universal Studios in L.A.
and a few days later they called and
said we'd like to screen test you
So I found myself on a plane
all expenses paid from Seattle to L.A.
first time I'd been to L.A. in fact
and that's how it started.
I must not fear, fear is the mind killer, fear
is the little death that brings total obliteration
I will face my fear, I will permit
it to pass over me and through me
MacLachlan is not a great thespian, he is
not Gielgud, he is not Sir Ralph Richardson
he is a perfectly competent actor
and in this case he was young and
I think a little frightened
and did a perfectly yeoman job
but Francesca Annis,
and Max von Sydow
and everybody else in the
cast, the characters are
so individual even Sting,
Sting really...
"I will kill you!"
all of them were
just the most wonderful
kind of repertory company
