Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and the rest of the cast were divided into the “Walkerskys” and the “Vadersteins” and answered questions including “What’s the worst bodypart to have chopped off by a lightsaber?”; “Besides Yoda, name something else that starts with ‘Yo’”; and “Which Star Wars character would make the worst roommate?”
The cast also sat down for a lengthy interview with Kimmel to discuss the new film, which arrives in theaters this week, as well as what they stole from the movie’s set.
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Will we be seeing Baby Yoda in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker?
Director J.J. Abrams opened up about The Mandalorian‘s breakout star while speaking with Variety at the film’s premiere on Monday (December 16) in Los Angeles.
“Baby Yoda is not in the movie,” he said, though he called the character the “cutest thing in the history of time.”
“How can you deny Baby Yoda?” J.J. Abrams added. “You can’t.”
Don’t miss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when it hits theaters on December 20!
Daisy Ridley keeps it chic and sophisticated while striking a pose at the press conference for her anticipated film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker held at Toho Cinemas Roppongi on Thursday (December 12) in Tokyo, Japan.
The 27-year-old actress was joined at the event by her co-stars Oscar Isaac, John Boyega and Anthony Daniels, as well as Star Wars characters R2-D2, BB-8 and D-O, producer Katherine Kennedy, screenwriter Chris Terrio and writer-director J.J. Abrams.
“I will only add that when I called Chris about doing this — and you were such a big Star Wars fan, which I had been told — I was such a fan of Chris’ screenplays, and Argo I thought was so beautifully written,” J.J. expressed about working with Chris on the screenplay. “I needed to have someone writing this with me who from the very beginning reminded me of how much Star Wars meant who hadn’t been in it in a way I had.”
“I said at the very beginning,” Abrams recalled, “‘you’re going to be with me this entire time, to the very end.’ And Chris being the humble man he is, made a self-deprecating joke about me not wanting him around by the end. We were together [in the trenches], kicking every tire, shaking every tree to make the story as good as we could and I can’t tell you how grateful I am for this gentleman’s partnership.”
Daisy Ridley is gorgeous as she strikes a pose on the red carpet while attending the special fan event for her film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker held at Roppongi Hills on (December 11) in Tokyo, Japan.
The 27-year-old actress was joined at the event by her co-stars Oscar Isaac, John Boyega and Anthony Daniels, as well as Star Wars characters R2-D2, C-3PO, BB-8 and D-O, producers Katherine Kennedy and Michelle Rejwan, and writer-director J.J. Abrams.
“It feels strange when we’re in a group doing things and people ask us how it feels because then you’re like [as if in pain] Oh! And we genuinely all really do get along. So that’s sad,” Daisy told Variety about her Star Wars saga ending. “But also, I think this story, from what we filmed, [screenwriter] Chris [Terrio] and J.J. have done such an amazing job at wrapping it up, it feels like the right time to say goodbye.”
“So even though it’s sad, it feels right,” Daisy continued. “But cut to Dec. 20 when we’re done, and I’m going to be like, ‘Take me back!’”
“It was really important that we not just redo the things you’ve seen, but add new elements—which we knew will infuriate some people and thrill others,” the 53-year-old writer-director told Vanity Fair.
“Among those things are not just new ways of doing sort of traditional, must-have sequences, whether it’s chases or lightsaber battles, or what have you,” J.J. added. “We wanted to make sure that this picture also showed aspects of the Force in ways that go beyond what you’ve seen before.”
The attraction opens tomorrow (December 5) at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida and January 17, 2020, at Disneyland Park in California.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is one of the most ambitious, advanced and immersive experiences ever undertaken by Walt Disney Imagineering, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality on a scale never seen before in a Disney attraction.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters December 20!
It seems like Carrie Fisher knew something no one else did at the time.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams sat down for an interview with Stephen Colbert on Monday night’s (November 25) The Late Show and dished about Carrie‘s lasting impact on the Star Wars films. And it turns out, she somehow knew plenty more than he did about her iconic character Leia’s journey.
Stephen asked Abrams about the fact that he read somewhere that George Lucas had originally intended the third series of Star Wars films to be Leia’s story.
“She was the greatest,” said Abrams about the late Fisher. “And we knew that there was no way that we could finish this Skywalker saga without Leia. It was impossible. And we knew we’d never want to do a digital Leia and of course couldn’t recast it.”
“I remembered we had these scenes that we had shot in The Force Awakens that we’d never used, which at the time I was really upset that we weren’t using them because it was Carrie and it was Leia and how do you not use them? But it just didn’t work in the movie. And weirdly, those scenes were material that we 100 percent realized that could be used to tell her story in this film,” J.J. continued. “So every time you’re seeing Leia in scenes with characters it’s Carrie in this movie. And I still can’t quite believe that she’s gone, because we’ve been working on these scenes in editorial and she’s as there as anyone. It’s really uncanny.”
Oddly, Carrie Fisher left a message in her book, “The Princess Diarist,” for Abrams before she passed away: “I wasn’t supposed to work on this film, and she passed away before The Last Jedi was released, and she wrote this book,” he said. “She thanked me at the very end, she says, ‘Special thanks to J.J. Abrams, for putting up with me twice.’ And I had never worked with her before The Force Awakens and I wasn’t supposed to direct Episode IX.”
Lastly, Stephen asked J.J. Abrams to identify which Star Wars theories are true and which are rubbish – Watch after the cut!
