In his film "Duna: Second" in 2024, director Dennis Vilnev significantly removed the character from Frank Herbert's original novel. In the book "Duna", while Paul Atridids and his pregnant mother Essesica are hiding among the frem, Esessica gave birth to Paul Alia's young sister. Since Essesica drank spiritually connected water in life while Alia was still in Matka, the little baby was born with an adult intellect and almost immediately grown into a child. She ended up playing a bigger role in Herbert's novel. The child Alia was shown by Alicia Wit in the 1984 film adaptation of "Dune" to Dunone Lynch.

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However, Vilnev Removed Alia from the narrative Because it would be too difficult to attract the baby to real life to hot, sandy films for filming in the deserts of Jordan. Instead, the story of "Duna" was again written so that Essesica (Rebecca Ferguson) received mental messages from Alia from the inside of the womb. Vilnev and his co-display, Jonon Spaits, also wrote an additional scene in which Paul (Timothy Shalamet) has a mystical vision of the future and has a brief conversation with an adult Alia (Anja Taylor-Radosti). /Movie previously wrote about How Taylor-Hoy had to fly to the beach in NamibiaAlmost in the last minute, to shoot her "Duna" scenes.

However, Taylor-Hoy was not mentioned in any of the marketing material for "Duna: Part Two", which looks like a strange choice, given that it is a recognizable film Starwar. Of course, given that she appears only in one scene, it is understandable why Vilnev would like to keep him secret: he intends to be a surprise. Talking to Hollywood reporter In 2024

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In the last few decades, journalists and Hollywood publicists have concluded an unsuspecting agreement to spread information. It is now allowed only the public's publicity firm to set aside film information, and journalists are allowed to openly discuss everything that appears in the review or advertising of the film. If the fact of film comes from an "illegitimate" source (a photo of paparazzi, rumors or some other "leak"), it is not intended to be seen. It is not until the publicity department reveals the information that we are allowed to talk about it.

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Despite most journalists and fans playing according to these rules, there are still foggy-wrist spells there trying to spread information when they can. As a result, many Hollywood productions go into serious locking during filming, keeping scripts under tight sheaths and closed sets to better protect the upcoming spoilage blockbusters. Vilnev knew that the hunters of dirt were there, so he decided to keep the presence of Taylor-Hoy in "Duna: Part Two" secret-part to keep a surprise, but mostly to see if he could even be done. As he said:

"I think Hollywood is the most talked about country on Earth and I wanted, as an experiment, to see how long we could keep a secret. We did it. It was a special unit, we went to Africa to shoot with Anja under super-seca.

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He worked because many films did not know that the adult Alia would be in "Duna: Part Two" until she hit the theaters. It was also smart to throw a star star like Alia, as she will play a bigger role in the story "Duna" in Vilnev Herbert's upcoming adaptation of Herbert. It also appears in the book "Children of the Duna", so if these films continue to be made, Taylor-Hoy will have a long and probably profitable gig.