So tell us what the most difficult part of getting back into Kylo Ren would be, what element of his personality is the toughest to
tap into
The costume. I would probobly say.
And where do we find kylo Ren when the film opens?
We find him right after where we left him off at a force awakens. There's not, there's no. There's no kind of time gap
I don't think there's been a lot of time to process anything
uh, Yet
is
What is it like having to work with a mask?
you work with the mask, and you don't work with the mask. is it, challenging?
I mean yeah, it's challenging like sometimes, you can't see
but it's really. I think it's like it's a beautiful mask. I really I like it both
Wearing it and not wearing it. You know you know. I don't know what it's hard
just it's hard to say the theme of it of people who are
Hiding you know
Behind masks I remember for the original one wasn't, like, it was part of the Star Wars world that we didn't want to take for granted
that you know people just wear masks for no reason so we tried to
Umm at least even for myself know, or try to figure out why he was hiding or why he, why he needed it
And what's the relationship between you and general Hux in this film?
well kind of similar to where
uuuhh
They are in the force awakens what it seems more, maybe it's you know
uhh
Competitive you know umm
I'd say that's the best way to answer that
and uhh the physical preparation for this film hmm more intense? the same?
Similar in some ways and different than others. It's like uhh... umm
The first one I feel like the vocabulary of the
Fighting style that we were kind of going with was, we were coming out totally fresh
We're because we started this kind of almost a month after we finished the force awakens there that kind of
vocabulary was still in our bodies more so we made things easier a little bit of little bit faster, but the the rigor of
Doing it was maybe more intense for this one so
Mark hamill was in The Force Awakens a little bit in this film a big part of the story
How was that working with a you know? with Mark.
it's hard to say without saying that I we if I actually did but I will say that as far as like
Being around him he is a very
You know
Charismatic generous person who is not closed off at all they could very easily be 'I've kind of done this before
And I know how it goes, so I'm just going to kind of' but he you know as you kind of hope people like
Him are in that position
Couldn't be more generous couldn't be more
Available to kind of talk about it. It's he's like he's an amazing guy
I think and so force awakens you were part of the new newbies the new cast now we have new
Newer cast members. How was how's the balance between the?
legacy cast
And the your cast from last film and in the new cast great
There's no hierarchy on set and that comes from leadership down which starts with Ryan and all and Cathy and there's no
There's no like we
'we've been this before we know what we're doing' because nobody does know even I I
Even if you ask mark, I'm probably about it. I'm sure he would say the same answer that he's done
Four of them now before, but I think he probably still approaches it with not knowing what's gonna happen
and I think everyone realizes that and and
Doesn't want to do themselves or anyone else's disservice by telling them what their experience is gonna be
nor did the
Original cast do that to us because it's it's very personal to every person everyone that responds to a different
movie of this scale you know
so you
It's it's very generous atmosphere and Mark didn't say the same thing pretty much
Yeah, yeah, he was very like I get that my pages
Just like everybody else gets my pages right right so you're dead on there the practical sets for this were
Supposedly real impressive and massive and more detailed than we've ever seen in any other Star Wars film, can you tell us
What was like working with that and if you had a favorite set?
No, I didn't have a favorite set, but I I will say that this time I had
More time to enjoy the sets well
I think with the first one it was more terror or denying that you know. Oh there look. There's a Millennium Falcon
You're like okay?
I put it out of your mind and just focus on this story
But this one because I had a better sense of what the world was I think I had more
time on set to sit back and enjoy
how the scale of them and the audience when they is my final question when the
Audience sees the film and his experience it. What do you think they're gonna walk out from take what do they take away again?
I think that's a very
Personal
Thing I
What is great about this movie is that it's able to balance?
so many different stories that are not still just plot devices, or you know two-dimensional everyone is a
three-dimensional person I think
And it doesn't sacrifice that Ryan just knows what I?
What you kind of hope?
Directors know who are working on this movies this size that no one will care about any kind of
you know explosion or ship or animal if there's no humanity behind it and
If anything I think it
Obviously it lends itself to the story and the more you vested or and the people the stakes are obviously higher
So hopefully people will take that away from it, but it's impossible for me to say what a general kind of
Thing someone will zero in on probably for some people it's all about ports some people it'll be all about you know
Luke you know it's hard. It's hard for me to say what people will well pull from it, but
If anything it'll hopefully feel as real as possible