The veteran who carries the six-episode series (which starts production on a second season this summer) is Emily Watson, a ...

“We met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the early ’90s, where … Since their early 20s, Emily Watson and Olivia Williams’ careers have run on parallel tracks.

They’re both clever, adventurous actors who started out on the stage with the Royal Shakespeare company and who – even 10 years ago – might have been expected to spend middle age in bustles ...

“We met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the early ’90s, where we were in different plays in different seasons,” says Williams. The two never ended up on stage together.

To prepare for her starring role in “Dune Prophecy,” a sci-fi series set thousands of years in the future, Emily Watson ...

To that end, Watson leaned on her stage experience as a Royal Shakespeare Company member to help her develop Valya’s speaking style. There was something about that kind of acting that she felt ...

Continue reading ‘Dune: Prophecy’ Stars Emily Watson, ... when we were impoverished stage actors at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and we haven’t worked together,” Williams recalled.

Emily Watson shares what it was like growing up in a cultlike organization; working with Lars von Trier, Robert Altman, and Paul Thomas Anderson; and starring in HBO’s ‘Dune: Prophecy.’ ...