Daniel Craig cameos as stormtrooper FN-1824 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the actor now reveals just how uncomfortable his costume was: 'I couldn’t feel my hands by the end of the day. These poor people have to wear them in the desert[...]'
Daniel Craig recalls how surprisingly uncomfortable his stormtrooper suit was during the filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. After Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, the House of Mouse quickly started work on a new series of movies set in George Lucas' galaxy far, far, away. In 2015, J.J.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Although audiences would be forgiven for not noticing, Craig appears in a brief cameo as stormtrooper FN-1824 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, acting as a guard at Rey's cell after she's been imprisoned. In a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast as shared by host Josh Horowitz on YouTube, Craig reflects on his stormtrooper cameo and reveals that the costume is surprisingly uncomfortable.
“Yes, that role was very dear to me. Is that what the character was called? I tried to get into the next two but no luck. 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 our movie 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---ing Stormtrooper suit.
After Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in 2005, the feature film arm of the franchise had essentially been lying dormant, meaning Disney's first movie came at a time when many fans were just looking forward to returning to a galaxy far, far away.
Johnson's movie, on the other hand, did take some big swings, which led to the film ruffling many feathers but winning over a passionate group of supporters at the same time. Abrams would attempt to recapture the same magic as his first outing with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, but the movie largely ended up falling flat for relying too heavily on fan service and unearned payoffs.
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