“It allowed us to look at the effects of the past and the present within one lifetime.”AdvertisementIn “Dune: Prophecy,” Olivia Williams’ Tula Harkonnen co-presides over a mysterious faction known as the Sisterhood. Because the events occur long before those in “Dune,” Williams says it actually helped to be removed from the lore. “Olivia is really good at that.”Emily Watson, left, with Olivia Williams in “Dune: Prophecy.” “At the beginning, my character is seriously subordinate to her powerful and terrifying older sister,” Williams says. “At the beginning, my character is seriously subordinate to her powerful and terrifying older sister,” Williams says. I’ve got ‘Dune: Prophecy’ to fall back on, but for the rest of the cast, that is their income.
