One Stormtrooper in particular had a license to kill.
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There were rumors a few months back that Daniel Craig spent some time on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with some saying he even suited up as a stormtrooper in the film.
Craig tried to shoot down the rumor, but never explicitly denied it, sputtering to EW last July, “Why would I ever bother doing something like that? F***ing hell! Pffft. Play an extra in another movie.” – but it’s now been revealed that he did indeed show up in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in a very easy to miss appearance.
Other rumours suggest that Benedict Cumberbatch also plays a Stormtrooper during the opening scene, but we’ll see about that one.
“Talk to Simon Pegg. I don’t know which scene it is but yes, it does involve Daniel playing a stormtrooper, because they wear helmets and for the most part they’re anonymous”.
So there’s a scene in the film after Rey (Daisy Ridley) is captured by the First Order and is strapped to a chair for interrogation. We’d have to imagine that he may have met his end once Kylo Ren found out about Rey’s escape, but then again, he took most of his lightsaber rage out on inanimate objects in The Force Awakens, so it’s possible 007 is still alive in a galaxy far, far away.
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“I’ll tighten those restraints, scavenger scum”, Craig’s character replies. However a spokesperson related to Disney, the studio in that astutely bought George Lucas’s Lucasfilm company, told me: ‘You’re near the truth.
