Austin Butler is an Academy Award nominated actor from Anaheim, California. He grew up in close proximity to both Disneyland and Knox Berry Farm, where he would go on a regular basis with his mother and sister. He was "discovered" at 13 years old and began acting on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel for a number of years before graduating to more serious roles. Butler has had roles on "Ruby and the Rockits", "The Carrie Diaries", and "The Shannara Chronicles". After his Broadway debut in 2018, his love of acting was reinvigorated from working alongside Denzel Washington and soon after the play closed, Butler would audition and inevitably prep for his largest role to date... click here to learn more about Mr. Butler.
The rising actor shifts gears and kills off Elvis for good with his turn as a maniacal villain opposite Timothee Chalamet.
This article, as you might imagine, contains major spoilers for Dune: Part Two.The first Dune film was a momentous step in Timothee Chalamet’s career—leading his first big-budget blockbuster—but by plot design, it was a film that played him off a bunch of OGs, each imparting different kinds of wisdom to his ascendant hero Paul Atreides. Dune: Part Two is a different story, with Zendaya now fully front and center, Florence Pugh in the mix, and most crucially, Austin Butler—a vibe shift Timmy clocked early on.
“It started on Zoom, when we did a cast reading,” Chalamet told GQ’s Dan Riley last year.
Make no mistake—Dune: Part Two is no less Chalamet’s movie, with a performance that finds him putting levels of Bene Gesserit-approved bass in his voice that I heretofore didn’t know he was capable of. But Austin Butler? He’s having so much fun that with say, 15 minutes more screen time, he could’ve reasonably stolen the show.
He certainly washes Stellan Skarsgard and Dave Bautista—no small feat especially given that the whole first film practically coasts on the dread their imposing figures inspire. Butler plays Feyd-Rautha, the younger brother to Bautista’s Glossu Rabban and youngest nephew to Skarsgard’s Baron Vladimir. The whole Harkonnen family strikes fear in the rest of the empire, but from his first scene Butler immediately rises to the challenge of being this film’s primary antagonist, a more directly-matched opponent to Paul.
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Austin Butler is an Academy Award nominated actor from Anaheim, California. He grew up in close proximity to both Disneyland and Knox Berry Farm, where he would go on a regular basis with his mother and sister. He was "discovered" at 13 years old and began acting on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel for a number of years before graduating to more serious roles. Butler has had roles on "Ruby and the Rockits", "The Carrie Diaries", and "The Shannara Chronicles". After his Broadway debut in 2018, his love of acting was reinvigorated from working alongside Denzel Washington and soon after the play closed, Butler would audition and inevitably prep for his largest role to date... click here to learn more about Mr. Butler.