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Rebecca Ferguson photographed | BAFTA’s television awards | London, England | 2023

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It’s my happy place. My goodness, it’s hard to explain how much I love the crew and the people of ‘Silo,’” declares Rebecca Ferguson about starring in the popular sci-fi drama “Silo,” hot on the heels of her high-profile work in “Dune Part 2” and the latest in the “Mission Impossible” film series. For our recent webchat she adds, “It’s the first time where I find myself calling Apple going, ‘hey, uh, what are the numbers? What are we looking at? How’s it going? Because I want to be called back,” she smiles. “I want to shoot another season. I want to go back into that world again. So, I really care that people love it and I’m really invested in it. I’m invested in the people that I’m invested in, more than just myself. I’m invested in the whole show.” The sci-fi drama contemplates big existential ideas about power, class and truth through a retro-futuristic industrial sci-fi lens, with audiences inevitably drawing parallels to current events. “What we’re deciphering is 10 episodes of a TV show with character building and worlds and philosophy and human psychological behavior. But it’s very much a part of our world as well; with Big Brother and being constant controlled,” Ferguson says. “What would happen if all of us right now grabbed our stuff, a couple of cows, a couple of animals, and just ran into a silo? Where would we be in 200 years? We won’t have evolved in that sense. We’re recycling, we’re reusing. It’s like going back in time, you know, taking away all of our religion. There’s no God, there’s nothing. There is only a book. And then you erase our history. It’s so thought provokingly gorgeous. I love it,” she says. “I see Juliette as one of those little plants in cement that breaks through, like you can’t stop nature. See, the curiosity of a person will always conquer over restrictions.”

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You say so much with Jessica’s costuming. In the first film, her look is immaculate and baroque. This film begins with her in rags, but she finds another path to being dressed and treated like royalty. And she gets a lot of tattoos on her face. Why did she get so many more face tattoos than the outgoing reverend mother?

She’s trying to play on the symbolism that was put in the prophecy. She’s supposed to be the mother of the Messiah, so I wanted to bring the idea that she was like the pope of the reverend mothers on Arrakis. There’s some kind of madness in writing elements of the prophecies on her face. Frankly, I think when you drink the worm poison, it affects your sanity — and the same with Paul. I like the idea that we feel she’s going too far.

Jessica is already pregnant when the first movie ends, and she’s still pregnant at the end of this film. Which means you had to condense this massive story into less than nine months because her body is a time clock.

The idea was to compress the book so that Paul will feel the pressure to get the Fremens’ trust, to start gearing up — but not to succeed, not to have the time to create a real war. Time is against him.

Because in the book, this takes years. Long enough for Jessica to give birth to a very unnerving daughter, Alia. We glimpse Alia as an adult — she’s played by Anya Taylor-Joy — but you skipped over seeing her murder people as a toddler. Was it hard to decide no “murder toddler”?

I think pregnant women look tremendously powerful. To use that power was very exciting. And usually when you see a pregnant woman onscreen, she’s always giving birth. To avoid that moment, to stay in the state of being pregnant, I thought was very Frank Herbert-like. I was going away from the killer toddler, but I thought that was more fresh and original. Honestly, it’s one of the things that I’m proudest of in the adaptation.

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Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica

DUNE: PART TWO (2024) - dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Appearing in an upcoming episode of WrapWomen’s “UnWrapped” podcast, Ferguson explained that her exit was “collaborative,” in that it was her choice to leave, but the exact means of her exit came down to cowriter-director Christopher McQuarrie and his team.

Of course, Ferguson totally understands the resulting emotions that hit fans with her fictional death, because she felt them, too. But, she wasn’t sure the character could go where she’d hoped it would.

To speak very clearly — because I know a lot of people are sad about it, I’m sad about it — I had filmed three films. My deal was done,” Ferguson said. “And I love her beyond words. Beyond words. I think she’s the most awesome, fantastic character.”

The actress expressed, though, that with the fourth film about to be written and the offer on the table, it seemed to her that there wasn’t “enough space” for Ilsa to be the character she was.

“Ilsa was becoming a team player. And we all can want different things, but for me, Ilsa was rogue,” she explained. “Ilsa was naughty. Ilsa was unpredictable. There was a lot of characters coming in, not leaving enough space for what she had been.”

Beyond the character elements, Ferguson admitted she also considered how much of her time she would have to give up in order to keep going with the physically demanding franchise.

“Selfishly, that’s a lot of time to make a ‘Mission’ film. And unless you’re going to have a lot of screen time, that’s a lot of time sitting around waiting to film a huge movie that could take over a year to film,” she said. “It’s dedication.”

“There’s a moment where you think it needs to be worth it, not just to love the character and to embrace Tom and [McQuarrie] and the story. I want to work, man. I want to work. I don’t want to sit in a trailer and know that there’s maybe coming a scene in credits.”

Ferguson went on to explain that, because McQuarrie’s “Mission” films are notorious for working out scripts on the fly and the production is “so extravagant,” there ends up being a lot of downtime for many on the cast.

“You have to literally jump when they say jump, and that’s why it’s amazing. You’re highly trained, highly skilled. It is so intoxicatingly exciting when you’re rolling, but there’s a lot of waiting,” she said. “And the more characters that are brought in, the more waiting.”

Ferguson was quick to point out that, since she wrapped “Dead Reckoning: Part One,” she’s filmed two “Dune” movies and two seasons of her Apple TV+ series “Silo.”

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Rebecca Ferguson signing autographs in LA | April 14, 2024

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REBECCA FERGUSON -2024 Deadline Contenders Television event in LA | April 14, 2024

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REBECCA FERGUSON - "20 questions on Deadline podcast" (2024)

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Rebecca Ferguson | ‘Snowman’ Press Conference in Beverly Hills, California | 2017

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Rebecca Ferguson Says Silo Season 3 and 4 Might Film Back-to-Back With Latter Ending Series

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Rebecca Ferguson for Collinder Interviews

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Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica

DUNE: PART TWO (2024) - dir. Denis Villeneuve

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"One day I would film with three different directors, three different episodes [for Silo season 2] So I have color-coordinated, directorially coordinated my scripts. I only have my stuff, no one else’s, and I have it in sequence, in order, so I know when I look at the day, color-wise, who I'm working with, when I'm working with them, where I am. So it's very unsexy. I find it very sexy. I love everything that has to do with highlighters. I’m a bit OCD."

Rebecca Ferguson - interview for Collider | April 13, 2024

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Hanging with my homegirl @rebecca_ferguson on the set of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1, back in 2021. ❤️

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“Paul has never killed a man.”

Dune dir. Denis Villeneuve

The mother and the son, watch each other kill.

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LADY JESSICA

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