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Lady Jessica is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. A main character in the 1963–65 novel Dune , Jessica also plays an important role in the later installment Children of Dune (1976).
That girl grew up to be Lady Jessica, who became the concubine of Duke Leto Atreides and birthed Paul and Alia. That means that Baron Harkonnen is technically Paul's grandfather.
The series takes place something like 10,000 years before Lady Jessica gave birth to ... Tula Harkonnen is used to living her life in the shadow of her older sister Valya, but when an outside ...
In the series, Piter discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant. The plot is thwarted and the secret preserved when Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Mohiam kills the Mentat and arranges for his corpse to be shipped home to the Harkonnen homeworld, Giedi Prime.
“When you think about the types of characters you want to play, there are so many things that you can do,” says Jessica Barden, who stars as a young Valya Harkonnen in the HBO series Dune ...
Harkonnen also distracts Leto's Mentat Thufir Hawat from discovering Yueh by guiding Hawat toward another suspect: Leto's Bene Gesserit concubine Lady Jessica, of whom Hawat is already distrustful. The Atreides are soon attacked by Harkonnen forces, secretly supplemented by the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Sardaukar , as Yueh disables the ...
Lady Jessica briefly alludes to the origins of this blood feud in the pages of Frank Herbert's Dune upon which Villeneuve's movies are based. As a political power struggle builds between the ...
In Dune, the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme is, in theory, to have come to full fruition from the union of an Atreides daughter (planned to be born of the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica and the Duke Leto Atreides) and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, nephew of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (himself secretly the natural father of Lady Jessica). This plan is ...