 Director David Lynch (I) (qv) and producer  Raffaella De Laurentiis (qv) arranged a screen test in New York  with Sean Young (I) (qv) for the role of Chani. Youngs agent  never told Young about the meeting, and she was in fact booked on a  flight that evening to Los Angeles. Lynch and De Laurentiis missed  their flight back to Los Angeles, and ended up catching the same  plane as Young. During the flight, De Laurentiis noticed Young and  told Lynch, "I bet that girls an actress." A stewardess told the  pair that her name was "Sean Young", and De Laurentiis confronted  Young about standing her and Lynch up. The misunderstanding sorted  out, the three ended up drinking champagne and reading the script  together upon returning to Los Angeles.