While Lupita is always one we love to watch at premieres and award shows, we love the way she showed off how versatile her look can be as she swapped her elegant, chic persona for a more fun, futuristic vibe – and we love the edgy change.
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We’ve had the glitzy Hollywood shindig but Thursday night saw the United Kingdom premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Director J.J. Abrams said he was struck every day while filming by how lucky he was to be working on the film.
Variety’s chief film critic Justin Chang called it “by any measure a rousing, even restorative seventh chapter in the immortal space-opera saga”.
There is really no try, as Yoga might say, when it comes to competing with “The Force Awakens” at the box office. Did you do it for the fans? “I’m not sure myself”, he told AFP. Because it was a very good script and it was a great use of the character.
As for themes? Well, family and friendship and resisting authoritarianism, I guess. His Han Solo is still the charming rogue whose cool, offhand wit and reluctant heroism made audiences, and Princess Leia, fall hard for him.
There were only the first three. So I’m excited. I’m excited to see what’s gonna happen.
With that out of the way, here are some spoiler-free “Star Wars” tidbits and links about the movie and the Star Wars universe to tide you over until whenever you get to see it.
So what was it like coming back? They make us forget our best instincts. Mark Hamill wrote about his experience on Facebook… You’ve covered all kinds of pop culture for years. “It’s in good hands…I’ll be nerding out with the rest of us out there”. Star Wars is known for notoriously poor dialogue, with a young Hayden Christensen saying lines like, “I killed them”.
I shouldn’t – and won’t – talk about what any of them do for the film’s 135 minutes. They’re like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals. It’s a very different experience. But it serves me in a different way and I am invested in it in a different way than the fans are. He said, ‘How do you do this?
“I know that they have policies now at most theaters”, said West. “You don’t have to be so scared that you don’t do things”.
The man who many fans believe to be Rey’s father, Harrison Ford, says he avoids reading their plot predictions entirely: “I just don’t do that but I’m glad people are interested”.
Do you still fly planes after your recent crash?
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“This story has followed me from the beginning, not just me, but also my children”, said Max Von Sydow. Right? What am I missing here? I have been flying ever since.
