Olivia Williams told UPI she has known Emily Watson for decades, but astonishingly never got to work with her until they were cast together in "Dune: Prophecy."

As Dune: Prophecy nears, stars Emily Watson and Olivia Williams have spoken out about the responsibility they felt to avoid potentially damaging tropes in the show – most prominently, depicting "feminine hysteria".

To prepare for her starring role in “Dune Prophecy,” a sci-fi series set thousands of years in the future, Emily Watson turned to the Tudor dynasty. She spent hours at London’s National Portrait Gallery looking at paintings of Queen Elizabeth I,