But with Max’s new TV series Dune: Prophecy, it’s clear that the Bene Gesserit, a powerful ancient sect of women with ...

Williams said that the “Dune” mythology also tapped into people’s fears about women in positions of power throughout time. “Men are still terrified of what women get up to behind closed ...

In Dune, women are the real masterminds. From the Bene Gesserit pulling political strings to Princess Irulan recording the galaxy’s intricate history, women shape the greater universe ...

Ten thousand years later, Paul Atreides will become the messianic hero of “Dune.” Sisterhood is powerful. In a nice change from recent Earth history, women are the series’ defining force ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (UPI) --Olivia Williams says her Dune: Prophecy character Tula cares ... but these are not women to emulate," she added. "The basis of our science is eugenics and the practice ...

Women and how they wield power are at the center of HBO's new series Dune: Prophecy, a prequel to the epic first imagined by Frank Herbert in the 1960s. The six-episode season, debuting Sunday on ...

They had recently been cast as sisters Valya (Watson) and Tula in “Dune: Prophecy,” HBO’s new ... and their roles in the cabal of superhuman women known as the Bene Gesserit.