Daniel Craig Thought Back On Being A Stormtrooper In ‘The Force Awakens’, And This Was What He Had To Say
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“The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.”
It’s no secret that Daniel Craig played one of those “weak-minded” a few years back: In 2015’s The Force Awakens, the actor both portraying and voicing the stormtrooper, who was tasked with guarding the scavenger Rey on board Starkiller Base, was no other than the man, who has been James Bond in the last five entries of the franchise. Fooled by Rey’s Jedi mind trick, he ultimately opened her restraints and dropped his blaster rifle before slinking away.
Craig, who is currently doing some promotion for Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which premiered on Netflix on December 23, looked back at how he got the role while talking to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast:
“I love Star Wars, I wouldn’t have asked to be in it otherwise. Ben Dixon, who’s an assistant director on those movies and he was an AD on [Spectre] as well, and I was doing fittings. I asked him ‘Could I get a part in this?’ And he just said let me go and ask. The next day, I was in a f-cking stormtrooper suit.”
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But Craig’s love for stormtroopers and his ambition to portray one isn’t limitless: “I had to wear the thing all day and I couldn’t feel my hands by the end of the day. These poor people have to wear them in the desert, I wouldn’t have done it if I had to go to Tunisia.”
The character, whose code name was JB-007 while shooting, got his official designation through the video game: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens: FN-1824, which Lucasfilm’s story group later declared official canon.
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So far, FN-1824 has not appeared in any other stories outside Episode VII. However, his role is expanded slightly in the movie novelization when Rey instructs him to return to his quarters and speak to no one about the incident.
But Craig not reprising his role in the other two films of the sequel trilogy isn’t the actor’s fault: “I tried to get into the next two but no luck.”
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