{"id":27572,"date":"2026-11-04T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scandalplanet.com\/?p=313979"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:21:34","slug":"anya-taylor-joy-calls-alia-her-most-feral-creation-and-says-dune-part-three-makes-clear-paul-is-no-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghanahookup.com\/videos\/anya-taylor-joy-calls-alia-her-most-feral-creation-and-says-dune-part-three-makes-clear-paul-is-no-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Anya Taylor-Joy Calls Alia Her \u2018Most Feral Creation\u2019 and Says Dune: Part Three Makes Clear Paul Is No Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Nico Grey \u00b7 Published

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Anya Taylor-Joy says Alia Atreides, the blood-soaked little sister she plays in Dune: Part Three, is her \u201cmost feral creation,\u201d and that the film finally makes clear Paul Atreides is no hero. She said it in a New York Times cast interview published Nov. 4, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been behind the camera since 2001 and shot more than 2,000 scenes, so I know the exact moment an actress decides to scare you on purpose. Anya hit it in that trailer close-up, and now she\u2019s telling The New York Times she went feral to get there. I\u2019m listening.<\/p>\n

The interview, by Eleanor Stanford, reunites Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson and Jason Momoa ahead of the film\u2019s Dec. 18 release (The New York Times<\/a>). The cast portraits hit X a few hours later: FilmUpdates<\/a>\u2018 group shot passed 80,000 views, and DiscussingFilm<\/a>\u2018s post with Anya\u2019s \u201cPaul is no hero\u201d quote topped 120,000 views and 2,100 likes within the hour. X posts mentioning Dune: Part Three, Anya or Florence Pugh jumped from about 100 an hour to more than 1,500 in the hour after the interview landed.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes of the New York Times Dune: Part Three shoot. Open the clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nine seconds of the Dune: Part Three cast goofing around for The New York Times, and I can\u2019t stop watching Anya Taylor-Joy. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet hugs Florence Pugh, Jason Momoa and Robert Pattinson pile in, and Anya, platinum hair over a cream slip dress, ends up cheek to cheek with Florence.<\/p>\n

Behind the scenes of the New York Times Dune: Part Three shoot (0:09)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anya Taylor-Joy\u2019s hub:<\/strong> The Northman, Peaky Blinders, The Queen\u2019s Gambit and every other Anya scene, plus her red carpets, all on one page. Open the Anya Taylor-Joy hub \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Anya Taylor-Joy says that \u2018DUNE: PART 3\u2019 makes it clear that Paul Atreides is no hero.<\/p>\n

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What Anya Taylor-Joy said about Alia<\/h2>\n

Alia is the daughter of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica, born on Arrakis with the powers and memories of an adult Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother. That makes her Paul\u2019s most feared advisor, and the Bene Gesserit call her an abomination (CBR<\/a>). The new film picks up roughly 17 years after Part Two, with Paul on the imperial throne (Ars Technica<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how she described the part to the Times, as quoted by FilmUpdates<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the end of the movie, Denis and I talked, and I was like, \u2018Whoa, I\u2019m the bad guy. That\u2019s crazy.\u2019 But I really understood where she was coming from. What a gift of a character to play somebody that has one connection to one person, and nobody else matters at all. That kind of straightforwardness felt almost animalistic in a way. I\u2019ve never really done animal work before, but she was definitely my most feral creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And on Paul, quoted by DiscussingFilm<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Like the books], this has kind of happened with the movies too. Paul is a very charismatic character and you have to have the third movie to be like, hold up, this is not the moral of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The final trailer, released Oct. 27, already gave fans the image to match. 3DVF calls Alia\u2019s blood-covered face \u201cthe image that lingers\u201d (3DVF<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The New York Times shoot<\/h3>\n
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Here\u2019s what I see. Anya Taylor-Joy is at her hottest when she\u2019s dangerous. The Northman, Last Night in Soho, The Menu: the minute a role lets her go cold behind those huge eyes, she owns the frame. Alia is that dial turned all the way up.<\/p>\n

After 2,000+ scenes I can tell you that \u201cI\u2019m the bad guy\u201d is the most exciting thing an actress can say on a press tour. It means she stopped protecting her image. And \u201cmost feral creation\u201d from a woman who walked naked into a hot spring for Robert Eggers? That\u2019s a promise.<\/p>\n

My take: Zendaya and Florence get the romance and the crown, but Anya is the one people will be talking about on Dec. 19. My bet is that bloody veil becomes the poster of the year.<\/p>\n

Her wild side is already on her hub<\/a> \u2192<\/p>\n

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The rest of the cast on Paul, Zendaya and the movies<\/h2>\n

Chalamet told the Times the trilogy changed him and Zendaya together: \u201cI was thinking about it with Z, usually you grow up with people over your childhood or your adolescence, and it was special with Z to kind of begin working with each other at the end of youth, and at the beginning of adulthood\u201d (FilmUpdates<\/a>). Zendaya remembered the first film the same way: \u201cWe were all anxious and really coming into it\u201d (The New York Times<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Florence Pugh, back as Princess Irulan, gave the franchise credit for saving cinemas: \u201cI think they brought back moviegoing. What an event the second one was. It was just so lovely to be a part of something that we know is our generational kind of \u2018Star Wars’\u201d (FilmUpdates<\/a>). Newcomer Robert Pattinson, who plays the villain Scytale, called it \u201cone of the only franchises where I\u2019m like, \u2018oh I\u2019m a full fan’\u201d (The New York Times<\/a>, Ars Technica<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The money backs them up. The Times reports Part One and Part Two have grossed more than $1 billion worldwide together. Part Three, based on Frank Herbert\u2019s Dune Messiah, opens on Dec. 18 in U.S. theaters and IMAX, the same day as Avengers: Doomsday (Warner Bros.<\/a>, 3DVF<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Dune: Part Three final trailer (Warner Bros., YouTube). Watch for Alia\u2019s blood-soaked close-up.<\/p>\n

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Anya lately: Dior, V Magazine and Paris<\/h2>\n

She hasn\u2019t been quiet off-screen either. This fall alone: a Dior holiday 2026 campaign in a white pleated dress, a V Magazine cover in a pale blue ball gown, sheer black Dior lace at Paris Fashion Week and a strapless satin corset gown at a Tiffany dinner in Paris.<\/p>\n

The other Anya: her hottest scenes<\/h2>\n

If Alia is feral, The Northman (2022) is where it started. Anya plays Olga of the Birch Forest opposite Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, and Robert Eggers didn\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n

Anya Taylor-Joy in The Northman (2022): the hot spring nude scene. Open the clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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