Editing Lady Jessica (section)

==Description==
Jessica is described in ''Dune'' as having "hair like shaded bronze ... and green eyes" as well as an "oval face." This shape is later notable as a marker of Jessica's bloodline.<ref>{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Herbert |title=[[God Emperor of Dune]] |date=1981 |quote=In the way genes occasionally do, [Siona's] features copied those of a long dead ancestor: gently oval and with a generous mouth, eyes of alert awareness above a small nose.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Herbert |title=[[God Emperor of Dune]] |date=1981 |quote=Luyseyal was young, however, with the sensuous oval features of the Jessica-type, and those genes tended to carry a headstrong nature.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Herbert |title=[[God Emperor of Dune]] |date=1981 |quote=Idaho stared speechlessly at [Irti's] face, stopped in a completed step. It was the face of a woman known only to his deepest fantasies—a soft oval with penetrating dark eyes, a full and sensuous mouth ... 'Jessica,' he whispered ... It was the face of Jessica resurrected out of a past he had believed gone forever, a genetic prank. Muad'Dib's mother recreated in new flesh.}}</ref> Novelist [[Brian Herbert]], Frank Herbert's son and biographer, wrote that "Frank Herbert had modeled Lady Jessica Atreides after [his wife] Beverly Herbert, with her dignified, gentle ways of influence, and even her prescient abilities, which my mother actually possessed."<ref>{{cite book |last=Herbert |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Herbert |title=[[Dune (novel)|Dune]] |chapter=Afterword by Brian Herbert |year=1965 |edition=[[Amazon Kindle]] |publisher=[[Penguin Group]] |pages=869–870}}</ref>

[[Francesca Annis]], who portrayed Jessica in the 1984 film ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'', said of the character, "I see her as sort of a supreme matriarch ... She's a mother, a guardian, a guide and an almost mystical figure".<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Making of Dune]]|chapter=The Cast|date=1984|first=Ed|last=Naha|authorlink=Ed Naha|publisher=[[Berkley Books]]|isbn=0-425-07376-9|edition=Trade paperback|page=34}}</ref> [[Michel Chion]] wrote, "In the novel, [Jessica] is a pitiless, resolute woman with an influential voice. She is also the book's second most important character, present in a great many scenes narrated from her point of view. She does not hesitate to reprimand, advise and toughen her son."<ref name="chion">{{cite book|title=David Lynch|chapter=Immobile Growth|edition=|first=Michel|last=Chion|authorlink=Michel Chion|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|date=2006|isbn=978-1-84457-030-0|pages=64–65|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzn8DwAAQBAJ&dq=chion+david+lynch+jessica+becomes&pg=PA64}}</ref>