Sting offered Austin Butler his original ‘Dune’ codpiece to wear: ‘He’s going to dry-clean it’

nypost.com:

personal with “Dune: Part Two” star Austin Butler.Sting, 72, who played the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the original 1984 movie “Dune,” met “Elvis” star Butler at the “Dune: Part Two” premiere Sunday in New York City — and offered him not advice but a piece of his movie wardrobe.“I met him last night.

He came to the premiere,” Butler, 32, said during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday. “It was so surreal.

My mind was blown. He’s the best.”“He came up afterward, and he was so, so, lovely and just debonair,” the actor said. “I asked him about [starring in the original ‘Dune’movie] and he said he still has the codpiece from the original — he said he’s going to dry-clean it and let me wear it if I want to.”Butler did not say if he would take Sting up on his offer.In “Dune: Part Two,” in theaters March 1, Butler plays the chrome-domed, ruthless killer Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, who was not featured in 2021’s “Dune: Part One.”Sting’s Harkonnen had spiky red hair and a winged codpiece in “Dune,” which co-starred Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, who’s being played by Timothée Chalamet opposite Butler in the sequel.Forty years later, Butler’s Feyd-Rautha, who is hairless and appears phantom-like, is the nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård).In “Dune, Part One,” Paul survived Harkonnen’s attack on his family and the murder of his father (Oscar Isaac).In “Dune: Part Two,” according to the movie’s trailers, Feyd-Rautha is given the job of tracking down and killing Paul in alliance with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen in his bid to rule the desert planet Arrakis.“The thing with a villainous character — I’d never played a character quite like him, and I didn’t want to judge him, so it.