What does Javier Bardem’s character in Dune always say?

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Javier Bardem has played Stilgar, a leader of the Fremen, in the first two installments of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune series, based on the sci-fi novels by Frank Herbert. Stilgar believes that Paul Atreides (played by Timothée Chalamet) is the long-promised messiah, known as the Lisan al Gaib. Fans created memes out of Bardem’s Stilgar saying “Lisan al Gaib.”