00:00Congratulations on this.
00:02So what kind of Star Wars movies did you kind of look to the most for inspiration when you were
00:07going to the big screen?
00:07I find that I've talked to a lot of Star Wars fans around the world.
00:11I've been to Star Wars Celebration where you have from kids to, you know, people, senior citizens.
00:18And I find, much like music, people tend to connect with the Star Wars that was happening when they were
00:26of a certain age.
00:28Usually, like, right early teens, before teens, that's the Star Wars that they remember the most fondly.
00:36And so for me, I was 10 years old when the first one came out.
00:39And I remember sitting 49 years ago to the month seeing it in New York with my dad.
00:46And so for me, the original trilogy, especially the very first film, is the one that I still connect with
00:52the most.
00:53By the time the third one came out, I was an usher in high school in the movie theater.
00:57And so that, I think with the techniques, we're working with Phil Tippett doing stop motion, doing motion control miniatures,
01:04building sets.
01:05We were able, because it's a film now, we're able to take over the Manhattan Beach Studios most of that
01:11lot and build on sound stages.
01:13Now, Hudda's swamps and, you know, that felt very much like what I remember of the sets from Dagobah.
01:20So I think we're always going back and reliving our childhood and embracing the things that made the biggest impressions
01:26on us when we were of that age.
01:28Tell me about the decision to have Pedro's helmet off and actually see more of his face in this one.
01:33I know. How do you like that?
01:34You know, we've been working together for eight years.
01:36He's always been, you know, beloved by especially genre fans.
01:42But in these past few years, he's just grown into one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
01:48And now there we go. We got a character in a helmet that we've established has to wear it.
01:52But fortunately, we were able to get him out of the helmet quite a bit on this one and even
01:56do some action set pieces with him.
01:59And casting Jeremy as Jabba the Hudson is kind of unexpected. How did that come about?
02:03I was you know, I had met him. He and I have both played chefs on screen and we struck
02:09up a conversation.
02:09I've liked his work for even before the bear in Shameless.
02:14And so I felt like I watched him really develop and become this really complex and interesting actor who brings
02:21a lot of humanity and vulnerability to his roles.
02:24And and the idea that we could ground this character with the performance with an actor like that was it
02:30was a I thought was a really interesting opportunity.
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