7 Ways the Dune: Part Two Cast Stay in Shape

1. Zendaya

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Zendaya plays the character Chani in the film. She tells Interview Magazine that she doesn’t like to put pressure on herself when it comes to her life and career. “I’ve never really thought, ‘I have to do this by this time and I want to do this by that time.’ I just want to do the things that make me happy and bring me joy and fulfill me as an artist, as a person. So, I keep that loose, because if one day it turns into a completely different career path, then I would allow myself to do that.”

2. Josh Brolin

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Josh Brolin plays Gurney Halleck in the film. He shared how he got in shape for the role on Instagram. Brolin captioned the post, "20 squats, 20 dips, 20 Push ups in the sauna — 5 rounds after 225 degrees for 30 mins, followed by a 36 degree cold plunge for 5 mins after 25 circuit training workout for cardio and core without rest. And tons and tons of spice."

3. Austin Butler

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Austin Butler plays Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. To prepare for his role as Elvis Presley, he worked with trainer, Ryan Gambin. “He really takes his job seriously,” Gambin told The Courier-Mail of Butler. “And obviously Elvis has a lot to do with his hip movement so we were doing a lot of hip dominant exercises. We didn’t have any strength goals … but we pretty much focused everything around his hips.”

4. Timothee Chalamet

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Timothee Chalamet plays lead role Paul Atreides in the film. In an interview with GQ, he revealed that Tom Cruise inspired him to train harder for the film. "After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first Dune, he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email," Chalamet said. "He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you. The email was really like a war cry."

5. Florence Pugh

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Florence Pugh joined the film as the character Princess Irulan. In an interview with Vogue, she talked about her relationship with food, and why she doesn’t want to lose weight for roles. "It was expected that you would be on whatever diet that you needed to be on, and for me, that was just shocking because I'd never done that before," she explained. "I think I definitely put my foot down in that aspect. I love food."

6. Dave Bautista

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Dave Bautista plays Glossu Rabban Harkonnen. In an interview with Men’s Health, he revealed his typical diet. “I eat as clean as possible. I was eating mostly vegan, except for eggs because I couldn’t give them up for breakfast. I play with my diet a lot. During the day, I am all protein and fats. And then at night, I’ll usually have one very low-carb meal.”

7. Rebecca Ferguson

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Rebecca Ferguson plays Lady Jessica in the film. She talked about her fitness secrets in an interview with ELLE. “I do Pilates when I can. I found a real sense of—it sounds really weird, but I don't understand people that can run outside as a jogging regime. I sort of go ‘ooh a flower,’ ‘ooh mountain,’ and ‘ooh hello!’ but now I like running on the treadmill so I'll whip up a film or something that is max 40 minutes, and I just go running. I'm into Modern Family right now. That's very good!”

1. Training For Mission Impossible

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Ferguson trained for six hours a day, five days a week for her role alongside Tom Cruise on Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation. “Pilates was the ground floor,” she says. “It’s such a good way of keeping your body safe. There is so much technique in fighting—how do you hold your fist, where does the motion come from. I had to learn to run fast—so we did a lot of explosive running. When we started filming, we kept the training up as much as possible. When you see a sequence that is 30 seconds long, it has taken weeks of preparation.”

2. Doing Her Own Stunts

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Cruise’s daredevil attitude clearly rubbed off on Ferguson, who also did her own stunts for Rogue Nation. “I did nearly all of the stunts myself. I knew I could back out at any second—they had a stunt double ready,” she says. “But I think that’s what made me do it. I had to jump off a Vienna rooftop with my legs strapped around Tom Cruise on the first day! Later on in the film, there’s a 120-foot fall. It is scary. You need to get a lot of camera angles, so we had to do it ten times!”

3. Farm Life

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Ferguson lives on a farm in the Swedish countryside with her family, and wants to become as self-sufficient as possible. “We’re looking to create some sort of eco-bio produce to be able to have some sort of a nice rotation of veggies,” she says. “Maybe get some lambs and we’re also surrounded by such knowledgeable people in the area, so yeah, a kind of living that is so wonderful if you have the possibility. Because it is a big farm, friends can stay there, or even move in if they want to; it’s about creating this wonderful community for all of our kids where they can just run around, we can have a pool in the barn and build treehouses, so there’s so much space for people to do whatever they want to and just create. I love it, I just love being in nature.”

4. No Sugar For 8 Months

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Ferguson had a nutritionist on set while filming Rogue Nation. “Yes, because much goes into the training regimen,” she says. “If you start being stupid and think that you’re going to look good because you don’t eat, you won’t be able to get through it. We’re given good carbs, good protein, lots of sweet potatoes. [My food plan] was completely dependent on the scene that I was doing. If I wasn’t exercising too much, I ate more salads and vegetables. I did cut out sugar for eight months.”

5. Typecasting Worries

Ferguson sometimes feels boxed in by always playing the “strong” female roles. “I feel frustrated by the pitfall of doing things that are not completely different, from a creative aspect,” she says. “People enjoy what I do, but it’s recognized in a similar way. It makes me see that I’m trying to put together something that is shaped by other people, and I want to break out of it.”

Get ready to be inspired by the incredible transformations of these 10 movie stars who took their fitness to a whole new level for this summer's blockbuster films. From Phoebe Waller-Bridge embracing the mental challenge of acting to Zoe Saldana's organic beauty secrets, these stars went above and beyond to get in shape. Chris Pratt revealed his quick weight-loss secret, while Halle Bailey shared her intense stunts regimen for The Little Mermaid. Michelle Rodriguez and Vin Diesel showcased their dedication to weight training, while Pom Klementieff and Shameik Moore revealed their passion for action-packed workouts. Get ready to be motivated by their impressive journeys to peak performance on the silver screen.

1. Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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In 2019, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) opened up about working as an actress and the pressure she deals with in an interview with ELLE. “The pressure is real," she said. "But at the same time, even you saying that – you, the most extraordinary, perfect human being on the planet, inside and out – is reassuring, because it shows that it’s a mental state most women find themselves in, rather than actually being something that’s important. I feel like when I’m on set working with people I love, with my head in the work, all those things fall away. I stop caring about any of that shit."

2. Zoe Saldana

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Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy III) shared some of her skincare and wellness secrets with Byrdie. She says that she gets creative with things. “Growing up in the Dominican Republic, I learned to be very organic with my beauty routine,” Saldana said. “Cooking products are not just for cooking; you can actually use them for beauty, for wellness. If you live in the islands, you get a coconut, and you use every part of that coconut. You drink the water, you make food with the meat, you can squeeze it and make coconut milk, and that milk you can put on your skin, on your hair. And then you can make coconut oil and coconut butter. I grew up using the environment to its full potential. And that just made me feel really, what’s the word, grounded. Because I was using everything around me in so many different ways, not just conventionally.”

3. Chris Pratt

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In 2019, Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy III) was about to start filming and was making sure to get in shape. He shared his secrets on his Instagram story. "I am about to start filming a new film, 'Ghost Draft,' I have some weight to trim off. I am already down 12 pounds, which is pretty good and it happened pretty quickly. Here's what I did: Water. If you're like me and wondering how you can shed some weight, water. Start there."

4. Halle Bailey

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Halle Bailey did a lot of her own stunts in The Little Mermaid. She opened up about the process on an interview on Live with Kelly and Mark. “When I was filming, I was in the best shape of my life,” she said. “It was like, intense, every day, 4 a.m. gym, then stunts, then get in the water; it was, like, a lot.”

5. Michelle Rodriguez

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While prepping for her role in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Michelle Rodriguez (Fast X) shared how she got in shape at last year’s Comic-Con. “Lots of working out, lots of protein shakes, lots of gas. Lots of push-ups, lots of sit ups. There’s lots of lifting weights. During COVID, you could get lots of frustration so I kind of got [producer] Jeremy [Latcham] to hook me up with a punching bag by my trailer. That helped a lot with the stressful days. I had a blast training.”

6. Vin Diesel

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Vin Diesel (Fast X and Guardians of the Galaxy III) shares a lot of his favorite workouts on Instagram. One thing he naturally likes to do is weight train. Diesel shared this photo of himself with weights, captioning it, “Building a film character is like anything else... one day at a time.” He also shared this video of himself doing dual lateral rows, captioning it, “I have a dream.”

7. Pom Klementieff

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Pom Klementieff (Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One and Guardians of the Galaxy III) is starring in both the new Mission Impossible and Guardians of The Galaxy films. She shared some of her tips for getting in shape to Esquire. “I've been training for years. I love pushing myself—just learning new skills and fighting. I love doing action stuff. It's really fun. I was just boxing this morning.”

8. Shameik Moore

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Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse) shared some of the things he does to stay in shape in a video with Men’s Health. He says that he does a variety of things to stay healthy. “I love to box. I do cross fitness, I do yoga. I have a chef that makes sure that I’m eating healthy.”

9. Jennifer Lawrence

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Jennifer Lawrence (No Hard Feelings) worked with Kurt Foreman to prep for her role in Red Sparrow. Foreman opened up about the process to Body + Soul. “What we started off with was her posture – how she walked, how she stood, and I knew that what we needed from her for all the visual effects to work and for all the close up shots to work, was I needed her upper body to look as polished as possible, and I needed it to match with what the dance double was doing.”

10. Anthony Ramos

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Anthony Ramos (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) does a lot of core workouts to stay in shape. He shared some of his favorites in a video for Men’s Health. In it, he is seen doing exercises like bear plank to planks, bear planks to a push-up, back extensions with rotations, and skin the cat exercises. The Mayo Clinic states that having a strong core is important. “Strong core muscles make it easier to do many activities. When your core muscles are strong, it's easier to swing a golf club, get a glass from the top shelf and bend down to tie your shoes. Strong core muscles help athletes, such as runners. That's because weak core muscles can lead to more fatigue, less endurance and injuries.”

Zoë Kravitz is something of a chameleon when it comes to her on-screen roles—from The Batman to Mad Max: Fury Road, she manages to make having a lithe yet muscular physique look effortless. The 34-year-old actress has an approach to health, wellness, and beauty that focuses on diet, exercise, and most important of all, happiness. Here’s how Kravitz stays so fit, and what her wellness mantra is for her most fulfilling life.

1. Cardio and Squats

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Kravitz has a simple yet effective approach to her fitness—she works out at home, and doesn’t make it complicated. “I do simple cardio, and sit ups and squats,” she says. She also loves visiting her favorite Korean spa in Los Angeles for self care.

2. Lots of Water and Vegetables

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Kravitz focuses on a vegetable-heavy diet with room for the occasional treat. “Trying to drink enough water is such a huge thing,” she says. “I really don't. Sometimes I'll realize it's five o'clock and I've had the tiniest glass of water. I try to go to the gym or at least walk and move my body around. I try eating well—making sure you're eating greens or steamed veggies, or stuff that doesn't have a lot of oil or chemicals. But if you want to go to McDonald's every once in a while, do it! But it's about clean food that hasn't been processed.”

3. Hiking and Elliptical Machine

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For Kravitz, working out is a form of self-care. “Working out is my alone time,” she says. “Depending on where I am, I go on runs or hikes or do the elliptical at the gym. I don’t get too fancy.”

4. Personal Trainer Five Days a Week

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Kravitz mostly likes to work out by herself, but used a trainer during the pandemic lockdowns. "I’ve been working out virtually with my trainer David Higgins five days a week,” she says. “And it’s actually been really great because it’s been giving me some kind of structure because I do it at the same time and it also makes the weekends feel like a weekend because I don’t workout on the weekends and it gives me just, oh, it’s a different kind of a day."

5. Catwoman Training

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Kravitz says her training regimen for her role as Catwoman in 2022 movie The Batman was hardcore. "It’s pretty intense," she said at the time. "We started shooting two weeks ago, but before that I was in London for two months, just getting in shape, training, learning fights… I can fight now."

6. No Processed Foods

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Kravitz enjoys a healthy, gut-friendly diet not just for health but for skincare. “[Facialist] Terri Lawton tells me food directly affects your skin,” she says. “So does stress. Eat well and stay calm. Water, organic non-processed foods, supplements like fish oils for the skin, and probiotics for digestion.”

7. Embracing Her Beauty

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Kravitz has no interest in looking like everyone else when it comes to her physique and appearance. “To me, beauty is an attitude, you know?” she says. “When I see someone who is comfortable in their own skin and knows who they are, I think that’s gorgeous. I’ve seen so many people who on paper are ‘beautiful,’ and there’s just nothing behind the eyes—they’re totally insecure, and all of a sudden, the beauty doesn’t mean anything, and I don’t find them beautiful anymore. That beauty lasts about two seconds.”