Thus it always seemed likely Zendaya’s role would be a tease for things to come, assuming of course Villeneuve got the chance to adapt the second half Frank Herbert’s sprawling source material. It is there they first truly interact with Fremen society it is there that Paul meets Chani. The character that Zendaya is playing, the Fremen warrior Chani, doesn’t have a significant part in the story until after House Atreides has fallen, and young Paul and his mother Lady Jessica ( Rebecca Ferguson) are forced to flee into the desert to survive. That is until he meets her in real life, and she’s holding a weapon on him at the end of Dune: Part One.įor fans of the novel, this was hardly surprising. She mostly comes to the character Paul Atreides ( Timothée Chalamet) as an ethereal vision in his dreams, before vanishing when he awakes. Despite the actress being upfront with the press and saying months ago she was only on set for four days, folks have been noticeably flabbergasted on social media that the popular star’s role was barely more than a cameo in the first half of Denis Villeneuve’s two-part adaptation.
So you’ve probably heard that Zendaya doesn’t have a whole lot of screen time in the new Dune movie. This article contains Dune: Part One spoilers and minor Dune: Part Two spoilers.