You wouldn’t know it by looking at them thanks to the dramatically different visual style between David Lynch’s Dune and Denis Villeneuve two-part masterpiece, but Sting and Austin Butler are playing the same character: Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.

While promoting his role in Dune: Part Two, Butler revealed that he had a chance to meet the effortlessly cool singer, who immediately offered the young actor a chance to don the infamous winged codpiece from his extremely ’80s time in the role.