Dune: Part Two (2024)

Florence Pugh: Princess Irulan

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• Princess Irulan : Muad'Dib. The prophet? The one who points the way. These are our own religious patterns aren't they. This is our doing. Muad'Dib... means kangaroo mouse. An unusual warname for a Fremen. What if Paul Atreides were still alive?

  Reverend Mother Mohiam : Enough. This must not come out. Even to your father's ears, do you understand?

  Princess Irulan : I do, Reverend Mother.

  Reverend Mother Mohiam : If Paul is alive he likely knows the truth. And should the great houses learn that your father was behind the liquidation of the Atreides, your father will face war and lose the throne.

  Princess Irulan : Then what hope is there?

  Reverend Mother Mohiam : Hope? We are Bene Gesserit. We don't hope, we plan. Paul is not our only prospect. The Baron's youngest nephew Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen will inherit Arrakis. He may be the answer.

  Princess Irulan : Feyd-Rautha? He's psychotic.

  Reverend Mother Mohiam : That's irrelevant. The question is: can we control him? And I intend to find out.

• Princess Irulan : You underestimate the power of faith.

• Emperor Shaddam IV : Muad'Dib. Some new Fremen prophet.

  Princess Irulan : It's not the first time we've had frictions with the Fremen.

  Emperor Shaddam IV : None of this magnitude. So, my dear daughter... how would you deal with this prophet?

  Princess Irulan : If this Muad'Dib is a religious figure, you can't use direct force. Repression only makes a religion flourish. You'll only end up humiliating yourself.

  Emperor Shaddam IV : You underestimate my Sardaukar.

  Princess Irulan : *You* underestimate the power of faith.

  Reverend Mother Mohiam : Her Highness proves once again that she was my most acute student.

  Emperor Shaddam IV : Send assassins.

  Princess Irulan : No, prophets get stronger when they die. Let the conflict on Arrakis turn into war, you then bring peace, as a savior.

  Emperor Shaddam IV : You'll be a formidable empress.

• Princess Irulan : In the shadows of Arrakis lie many secrets. But the darkest of them all may remain... the end of House Atreides.

• Lady Margot Fenring : [on Feyd-Rautha]  Respectfully, why didn't you test him yourself?

  Reverend Mother Mohiam : I'm a motherly figure. And based on what happened between him and his own mother, I didn't expect to be effective.

  Princess Irulan : What happened between him and his mother?

  Lady Margot Fenring : He murdered her.

  Reverend Mother Mohiam : Desire and humiliation. Those are his levers. If Feyd-Rautha prevails on Arrakis, we shall know how to control him.

• Princess Irulan : Imperial Diary, Year 10,191, third comment.

  Princess Irulan : The battle for Arrakis took everyone by surprise.

  Princess Irulan : There were no witnesses.

  Princess Irulan : The Harkonnens' operation was perpetrated overnight without warning or declaration of war.

  Princess Irulan : By morning, the Atreides were no more, all died in the dark and the Emperor said nothing since that night.

  Princess Irulan : My father has not been the same nor have I.

  Princess Irulan : His inaction is difficult for me to accept for I know he loved Duke Leto Atreides like a son but my father's always been guided by the calculus of power.

  Princess Irulan : This would not be the first time the Harkonnens have done his dirty work.

  Princess Irulan : In the shadows of Arrakis lies many secrets but the darkest of them all may remain... the end of House Atreides?