People think nobody in the Dune 2 cast likes each other
The cast members of Dune: Part Two do not like each other, according to people online.
This claim, perhaps unsurprisingly, has not been prompted by anything any actor has said or done. But Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler have had a… slightly awkward press tour. And their amateur internet biographers have been dissecting interviews to death in a way that has become more and more the normal mode for fans online.
Fanatical obsessions with celebrities date as far back as the concept of celebrity itself. But what sticks out about this reaction is how seemingly small a moment can be, and how much speculation it can inspire online. The four appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and at one point, Kimmel asked if the cast socialized outside the movie. In response, Chalamet said, “Yeah, I mean we, um—” and before he could finish, Zendaya simply laughed at his response and sort of looked around with her arms crossed. Chalamet later finished, “We interact on talk shows like these… in the most natural way. We’re almost comfortable.”
This interview alone has been enough to fuel viral videos and posts that comment on the overall awkwardness of the cast. The fact that there are four of them doesn’t help, because it’s led people to speculate on the various interpersonal dynamics that could be at play within the group. I’ve seen videos where people claim that the rest of the cast is just “tolerating” Butler, while Zendaya is legitimately friends with Chalamet.
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The entire response to the Dune: Part Two cast plays into the general tendency of users of TikTok and other video-friendly platforms to hyper-focus on the play-by-play of casual moments. On TikTok, there are entire accounts dedicated to lip-reading and people who claim to be experts in decoding body language dissecting videos of
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