MOVIESHow Stellan Skarsgård, director Denis Villeneuve created 'Dune' villain Baron Harkonnen Bryan AlexanderUSA TODAYStellan Skarsgård and "Dune" director Denis Villeneuve decided to create their cruel villain Baron Harkonnen without computer generated effects. "It's all done on camera. So it's a prosthetic suit that was attached to him," Villeneuve says. "We didn't want to use any CGI for the Baron to make sure that we see his real face and real facial expressions.Warner Bros. PicturesSkarsgård in a robed moment in "Dune." Even fully dressed, extensive details required the actor to spend 6.5 hours in the make-up chair with up to five artists painting "each vein" on the villain.Warner Bros./Chia Bella JamesSkarsgård's Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is introduced in a steam bath.Warner Bros. PicturesMakeup head Donald Mowat says the Baron had to be "vicious and frightening." To achieve this scary scene, where the Baron emerges from under the black liquid, Skargard says "you had to be under long enough for the surface to settle, and then come up with some kind of dignity." He succeeded.Chia Bella James/Warner Bros.For the floating scenes, "we started doing it with wires and that didn't quite work. Too mechanical," Skarsgård says. "Then they put me on a crane arm that you normally put the camera on. So I was sitting on that and they could smoothly make me float. That worked.Warner Bros. PicturesIn creating Baron Harkonnen, there are frequent "Dune" call-outs to Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now.Keystone, Getty ImagesSkarsgård has undergone extensive makeup as the barnacle-encrusted "Bootstrap" Bill Turner in a "Pirates of the Caribbean 2 - Dead Man's Chest." But it was nothing compared to the "Dune" endeavor.Industrial Light & Magic, WALT DISNEY PICTURESStellan Skarsgard celebrates his 2020 win for best supporting actor in the HBO miniseries "Chernobyl.Rachel Luna, Getty ImagesSkarsgård has shown a lighter side with Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth in the "Mamma Mia" movies. "If they call me and ask me if I want to do another one, I'll say, yes. I don't even have to read the script," he says. "Shooting those films were a paid vacation.Peter Mountain, Universal StudiosFeatured Weekly Ad