in the books he's 9 years old, but for the purposes of television

we have made him older

but basically what he retains from the book is that he is a young man, who has

a lot knowledge that he'd maybe shouldn't have, or

a lot of past lives inside him,

and therefore he has a lot of...

he's very mature in a way that freaks a lot of people out, as is his twin sister Ghanima

and they are very very close, and he is dissatisfied really with the world in which he lives, and

he's trying to change things, he sees a path

he sees a plan or a future

whereby the world in which they live, this empire that

that humanity has become

in 10,000 years from now, he sees a path where he can change it,

he can make a world where people

are free to choose their own destiny

As I say he has all the past lives of thousands ancestors residing in him

so he's got this knowledge

at the same time he's been able to use it because he's also got

the natural intelligence to be able to deal with it in a way that his aunt can't.

Alia deals with this abomination, this pre-born-ness

very badly, where as the two twins are a lot more clued up with it, and a lot more weary

and deal with it

with a lot more intelligence than she does and thus avoid abomination

and hopefully win the day,

like good guys do!

Well I was a huge fan of the book when I was very young, not very young, 15 - 16 I read the

books to begin with

and shortly after I saw the David Lynch movie as well, and loved that.

Didn't like it as much as I liked the books, it had things that I didn't love about it

Yeah, basically a huge fan of the first 3 books

from when I was young

and that was a huge draw for me to do this

because it was Sci-Fi, and it was Frank Herbert, it was Leto in

Children of Dune, which is just a great part, so yeah, that was kind of the big draw for me to do this

So yeah, there have been a lot of comedic moments,

I've appeared in this film naked many times now

we were doing running through the desert,

we'd done it like seventeen times,

and Miro the second unit director said "Do you want another one?" just try something different,

do anything you like, we don't really need it, but in case you have anything else left in there that you

wanted to kinda get out, and I thought, yeah, I got a lot in me I need to get out

so I went around the back and got naked

and decided to do the run completely naked, and then do a somersault at the end.

And halfway through the run I'm thinking "what a good idea!"

... "no it's not!"

When I got the script I thought this is good, I'm doing Sci-Fi,

I'm doing what I want to do, it's great fun. But I thought, oh god, I only get one fight at the end

I thought I'm not doing much action, that's cool, never mind

Now when I got here I'm running and jumping and fighting and flying and

hurling myself off cliffs.

God, I've got cuts and bruises everywhere

other than that it was really good fun, and you know

I'm a young guy, kinda getting to live out great stuff. Do you know what I mean?

I was doing all the stuff that I used to play with my friends in the garden when I was

like five years old, so it was really really good fun. Really good fun.