In fact,Dune: Part Twobrought Walken out of a four-year acting break.

I had, of course, seen the first Dune a number of times.

I loved it, and I admired [Villeneuves] movies.

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Arrival, I thought, was wonderful.

And of course, thats what I do for a living.

It was only, I think, three weeks.

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So, everything about it was attractive, he said to the magazine.

I think it was for Han Solo, Walken shared.

Yes, I auditioned for it.

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And if Im not mistaken, my partner in the audition wasI think this is trueit was Jodie Foster.

I think we did a screen test.

Im not sure we did a scene.

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Maybe we just sat in front of, in those days, those old videotape cameras…

I did audition for Star Wars, but so did about 500 other actors.

It was lots of people doing that.

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