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Leto is a young man
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in the books he's 9 years old, but for the purposes of television
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we have made him older
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but basically what he retains from the book is that he is a young man, who has
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a lot knowledge that he'd maybe shouldn't have, or
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a lot of past lives inside him,
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and therefore he has a lot of...
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he's very mature in a way that freaks a lot of people out, as is his twin sister Ghanima
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and they are very very close, and he is dissatisfied really with the world in which he lives, and
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he's trying to change things, he sees a path
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he sees a plan or a future
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whereby the world in which they live, this empire that
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that humanity has become
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in 10,000 years from now, he sees a path where he can change it,
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he can make a world where people
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are free to choose their own destiny
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As I say he has all the past lives of thousands ancestors residing in him
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so he's got this knowledge
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at the same time he's been able to use it because he's also got
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the natural intelligence to be able to deal with it in a way that his aunt can't.
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Alia deals with this abomination, this pre-born-ness
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very badly, where as the two twins are a lot more clued up with it, and a lot more weary
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and deal with it
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with a lot more intelligence than she does and thus avoid abomination
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and hopefully win the day,
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like good guys do!
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Well I was a huge fan of the book when I was very young, not very young, 15 - 16 I read the
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books to begin with
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and shortly after I saw the David Lynch movie as well, and loved that.
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Didn't like it as much as I liked the books, it had things that I didn't love about it
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Yeah, basically a huge fan of the first 3 books
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from when I was young
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and that was a huge draw for me to do this
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because it was Sci-Fi, and it was Frank Herbert, it was Leto in
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Children of Dune, which is just a great part, so yeah, that was kind of the big draw for me to do this
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So yeah, there have been a lot of comedic moments,
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I've appeared in this film naked many times now
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we were doing running through the desert,
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we'd done it like seventeen times,
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and Miro the second unit director said "Do you want another one?" just try something different,
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do anything you like, we don't really need it, but in case you have anything else left in there that you
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wanted to kinda get out, and I thought, yeah, I got a lot in me I need to get out
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so I went around the back and got naked
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and decided to do the run completely naked, and then do a somersault at the end.
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And halfway through the run I'm thinking "what a good idea!"
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... "no it's not!"
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When I got the script I thought this is good, I'm doing Sci-Fi,
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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
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I thought I'm not doing much action, that's cool, never mind
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Now when I got here I'm running and jumping and fighting and flying and
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hurling myself off cliffs.
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God, I've got cuts and bruises everywhere
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other than that it was really good fun, and you know
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I'm a young guy, kinda getting to live out great stuff. Do you know what I mean?
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I was doing all the stuff that I used to play with my friends in the garden when I was
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like five years old, so it was really really good fun. Really good fun.