Kyle, do you like fantasy movies?
Yes, yes I do. There are a few films I really enjoy,
although they are not so much fantasy films as science fiction
like Blade Runner I really, really enjoyed. I like Star Wars too of course.
Do you like Dune the film, or Dune the book. Are you a Dune fan of the book?
Yes I am a Dune fan of the book.
Well, I like them in different ways, I like both of them.
I don't compare them, they are separate in my mind.
There many things that appear in book that don't appear in the movie.
Yeah, quite a few
a couple of things that I particularly miss from the book
were the banquet scene that they had,
and a wonderful gladiator scene that they had.
But that is the way it is, that is the nature of film.
In Dune you play the character of Paul who becomes a messiah longed by man for many years. How did you interpret that as an actor?
Oh, it was a difficult process because I knew Paul from the book,
and Paul was all made up in my head,
but bringing him to the screen he was a different person
It was a really difficult thing to do,
I concentrated on three or four different qualities of Paul, and with David's help
I tried to recreate those as closely to the book as possible.
How was your relationship with Sting, who is your enemy in Dune?
Well it was alright, it was fine.
I didn't do a lot with him as far as scenes, we had one scene together,
the fight sequence, and we got along real well,
we worked hard together, we had a good working relationship.
And there was a lot of training for the scene you had together?
Yes, it was a pretty involved sequence
we trained for 3 weeks with our fighting instructor Kiyoshi Yamasaki
to get that scene just right.
Sting is a star known all over the world, how was him with you as a human being?
As a human being? Sting was a little withdrawn
which I would expect from someone of his stature in the music industry of course.
At the same time he had a couple of instruments in his room,
guitars, synthesizers, stuff like that
he was very nice with me when I wanted to go in and play, that sort of thing,
so at the same time he was very considerate too.
Kyle, what was the impression did you have shooting the movie, something you have not done before because you are an actor from the stage?
Well, I had a preconceived idea about what it was like to be in the movies.
I thought it was very glamorous profession
and I found out as I began shooting that it is not a glamorous profession
it is a lot of hard work, and a lot of dirty work too
it is not easy to be a film actor, there's a lot of demands put upon the actor.