A Tale of Two Centuries by Rachel Harris

One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat’s Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future. Tired of her sixteenth-century life in Italy and homesick for her time-traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future, Alessandra is lost. And Timothée did a beautiful job to bring that sincerity onscreen.Alessandra D’Angeli is in need of an adventure. ” Zendaya says that, “I think something we can all relate to is just love.” In the article Villeneuve gives a lot of credit to his two leads for “figuring it out,” saying that Chani is “a fierce warrior… but there’s something about that young man that cracks her heart. Sure, Paul is an invader/savior and Chani is a rebel princess, but their romance Chalamet says “humanizes” the “messianic prophecy that looms around. They played around with awkwardness, clumsiness, the kind of mis-steps that everyone goes through when trying to figure out if the person they like likes them back. I think it’s just as foreign to us as it probably is to the characters.”

“How do they show that they like each other? What does that even sound like? We were definitely trying to navigate that, which was funny because all of us were stumped. Figuring out how to flirt in this “futurist space” was difficult, says Zendaya. “We kind of got to sleep on it,” Zendaya says, “and think about it, and come up with a new set of ideas.”įiguring out how to get these two characters to fall in love was tough. But because they weren’t able to shoot all their scenes in just a few days, they were able to “revisit” their performances every day. Zendaya and Chalamet were filming in Jordan, and with such a limited window to film, in addition to the extreme heat of the region, the two actors had to be judicious with their on-camera takes. The epicenter of the story is this relationship.” Villeneuve set a lot of Chani and Paul’s more intimate scenes during the “magic hour” near sunset when the light becomes softer and yellow, giving everything a romantic glow. “If we don’t capture that,” Villeneuve told Vanity Fair in a new interview, “if we don’t have that onscreen, there’s no movie.

He knew he had to get this romance right.

A Tale of Two Centuries by Rachel Harris