Dune star Rebecca Ferguson reveals 'love' for co-star with four-word statement

Dune histrion Rebecca Ferguson is presently starring successful cult sci-fi bid Silo alongside The White Lotus's Steve Zahn, who she describes arsenic "the astir axenic dude I person worked with"

Ten 1000 radical are surviving successful a elephantine underground vault with the content that they’re the lone survivors connected post-apocalyptic Earth. However, erstwhile mechanic Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) is formed retired into the horrors extracurricular and survives her fate, that illusion is astatine hazard of shattering. Sci-fi play Silo is backmost for bid 2 connected Apple TV+, picking up with Juliette adjusting to beingness aft being banished from the silo and discovering different silo littered with dormant bodies. But with galore of the little floors flooded, our heroine indispensable look her fearfulness of h2o and larn to swim.

Shooting the h2o sequences was besides pugnacious for Mission: Impossible prima Rebecca – adjacent though she is an experienced scuba diver successful existent beingness and loves to swim. “I was calved successful Stockholm and we person tons of lakes and an archipelago,” she says. “I’ve ever loved the sensation of swimming and had that feeling of having a superpower. The question is truthful unregulated, it’s truthful antithetic from walking. I emotion the mode it feels erstwhile you spell underneath and you can’t perceive anyone.”

For the 10-part series, which besides stars Tim Robbins, Common and Harriet Walter, Rebecca had to larn however to determination and enactment similar idiosyncratic who has nary acquisition successful the water. “It was truthful hard to unreal not to cognize however to swim,” she says. “There’s a earthy move, however your hands interaction the h2o and however you paddle, however you determination your feet. To beryllium capable to look clumsy, it feels silly and it’s besides hard to get into your caput however you’d move. To get into that mindset, I thought of animals and dogs and what we did erstwhile we were young.”

As Juliette explores the caller silo, she discovers that she isn’t alone. It is location to a antheral named Solo, who has spent the past 30 years by himself aft the different residents attempted to permission and died. The White Lotus prima Steve Zahn takes connected the relation – with Rebecca, who is besides an enforcement producer, casting him herself.

“Steve is astir apt the funniest, astir honest, axenic dude I person ever worked with,” she says. “I’ve ever loved him. He’s a existent quality and helium inhabits Solo successful the mode helium moves, the mode helium uses his voice, his face, the mode helium moves his hands. It’s amusive to bounce disconnected that and helium made it each truthful real.”