Daniel Craig Reveals The Worst Half Of His Star Wars Cameo 10 Years Later

Ten years after Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens was launched, Daniel Craig reveals the worst half about his cameo. Craig has an uncredited cameo as a First Order stormtrooper who seems when Rey (Daisy Ridley) is held captive on Starkiller Base. He is similar stormtrooper that Rey makes use of a Jedi thoughts trick on with the intention to free her from the restraints.

Craig’s look was saved underneath wraps earlier than the film’s extremely anticipated theatrical launch, and it was solely within the aftermath that the cameo turned widespread data. It took place when Craig was filming the James Bond film Spectre. He requested Ben Dixon, who labored on Spectre and The Pressure Awakens as a second assistant director, about showing within the new Star Wars film, and director J.J. Abrams agreed to make it occur.

Whereas selling Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller on Sirius XM, Craig was requested if the stormtrooper uniform is uncomfortable. He confirmed that it was, because the uniform smelled disagreeable and the overlong, stable sleeves left his thumb hurting for every week afterward. Regardless of the discomfort, Craig is grateful for the expertise. Take a look at his feedback beneath:

It is mainly worn by loads of stuntmen out within the desert, so … they do not scent nice. Additionally, the sleeves on mine had been too lengthy, and it is stable, and I could not really feel my thumb for every week. However in any other case, it was nice.

With Rian Johnson directing and writing The Pressure Awakens‘ sequel, The Final Jedi, each he and Craig labored on the sequel trilogy earlier than teaming up for his or her Knives Out films. Lengthy earlier than the primary Knives Out and when The Pressure Awakens was nonetheless in manufacturing, although, Johnson had already found out that it wasn’t only a background actor within the stormtrooper uniform.

Throughout a Q&A session of a New York Metropolis screening for Wake Up Lifeless Man‘s press tour, which was moderated by Abrams, Johnson recalled how the scene stood out to him. He requested in regards to the actor enjoying the stormtrooper, and it was confirmed that Craig was the one portraying him.

After I was writing episode eight, we had been watching dailies, as a result of [Abrams was] taking pictures seven. Sooner or later… it was a scene with Daisy [Ridley] the place she does the Pressure thoughts management on a stormtrooper and will get him to unlock her issues. The each day got here up, the stormtrooper got here up, she stated it, the stormtrooper didn’t say something—simply walked throughout the room to her.

And I did this: “Who’s that actor?” And Pablo [Hidalgo] at Lucasfilm was like, “I believe it’s only a stunt dude in a stormtrooper factor,” and I am going, “No—that’s an actual actor, simply from the best way they walked throughout the stage.”

As uncomfortable because the stormtrooper uniform was, Craig nonetheless introduced a major presence to the half, even getting Johnson to pay attention to the character just by the best way he walked. Past making the small position distinct, Craig’s efficiency helped form an essential second in Star Wars canon, as it’s on him that Rey does her first Jedi thoughts trick and additional discovers her sturdy connection to the Pressure.

Craig is finest recognized for the Knives Out and James Bond movies, however his cameo additionally makes him formally a part of the huge Star Wars timeline and the long-running franchise. With Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens celebrating its 10-year anniversary, he’s a memorable piece of the film’s legacy.