FAREWELL my CONCUBINE

Ever since Rebecca Ferguson first received international attention for the British historical serial The White Queen in 2013, she has carved out a reputation for bringing elegance, fierce intelligence and complexity to her roles. She is equally compelling playing a predator in the 2019 Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep, or the prey of a killer space alien in 2017’s Life, and she is also partly responsible for the huge uptick in quality of the recent Mission: Impossible films. This year she is being transported thousands of years into the future for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, playing the conflicted concubine Lady Jessica. She explains what she brought to the role and how this adaptation reimagined what a mother, a mistress and a protector could be.

LWLies: It’s been a long two years since you shot – how was it seeing the final film?