The Director and the Jedi Page #8

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RI You just dig deep.

I literally couldn't breathe.

I felt like my heart was gonna punch out my chest.

You wanna know the truth about your parents?

They were filthyjunk traders

who sold you off for drinking money.

You have no place

in this story.

You come from nothing.

You're nothing.

Not getting what she wants.

Not getting the answers from the places

she thought

they were going to come from.

Meaning Luke. Meaning her parents.

Join me.

Please.

That was the hardest thing.

You're wondering who you are?

Well, you have to find out who you are for yourself

Please.

And cut. Wow. Great.

You're amazing.

That was really incredible. Good, good, good.

Good, let's check it.

How many sets of squibs until the rest of the day?

- Four?

- Four.

- I was so tired last night.

- Huh?

I was so tired last night.

Conked out at, like, 10:30.

Three days in Skellig,

and how many pre-shoot days in here?

We had two.

- So, five... So, 119?

- Yeah.

No. We need to shoot one more day.

Well, no. We've got Bolivia.

Bolivia...

If you count the three days

we shot in Skellig last year...

That's three.

If you count the two pre-shoot days...

I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna count right now.

- Hundred and twenty-three?

- Hundred and twenty-two.

Three days shoot there.

At the most. Right?

Two, three, four, five, six, seven...

RI Everyone's exhausted.

We've all been working very, very hard.

I don't want to speak for other people,

but I certainly feel

like in a delirious state.

The past few weeks has just been work,

get home, go to sleep,

and go to work again the next day.

Nine, 10, 11.

Hundred and twelve plus two.

- How many breaks did you have?

- None.

That's insane.

Just Christmas was...

Christmas was 10 days.

There's just nothing you can do. It's a grind.

So, as you get towards the end,

things piling up throughout the shoot.

You say, "Oh, we need to pick up this.

We need to reshoot this."

So, you put everything to the end,

and then we get to the end and realize,

"Oh, I got this much thing to do."

Wednesday, we got a pickup

to do on Finn for the casino bar.

And then we're gonna move to C Stage

to do a couple of pickups on the sea ship,

and a pickup in the cell.

Once we get back from lreland,

we're gonna be shooting pretty much every week.

Six-day weeks. It will be tough,

but, again, you also can feel the light

at the end of the tunnel as you get closer.

So, hopefully, that's gonna be fine.

All right, good evening, everyone.

Just to go over Ireland.

Just to make sure we've got all

the right things in the right places.

We're in a very heavily protected environment.

And everybody's aware that this is a difficult environment,

and take into account the difficulties of what we're doing.

If it's a nice sunny day like this,

then it's a less treacherous environment.

We're in a tough location

where only so many people can get there.

We have to build roads that are dangerous.

You're on top of cliffs, but we realized, early on,

the only way to really do it is

you have to be on location,

with real environment, with real weather.

And you can totally see and feel the difference,

when you're a filmgoer and you go to the movie.

The weather so far has been incredibly good.

And we have untold luck with weather.

So, hopefully, we won't have...

Why did you say that out loud?

Because I say it all the time,

and it's true.

All right, now can I be really boring?

Anyone who doesn't need to be

on the grass, get off it, please.

Remember when we were

waiting for the sun to go away?

The beauty of being here is to get these incredible vistas.

So, in order to shoot that,

we have to be on a ledge

that's very narrow,

all the puppeteers, which there are four,

have to be harnessed, as do the porgs themselves.

They're harnessed to the performers

in case the performer drops the porg

or the porg falls over the edge.

So, weather permitting,

what you achieve by being here

is something really, really extraordinary.

Yeah, maybe cheat the look towards camera, a little bit.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's nice.

- Camera's running.

And action.

Excellent. And cut.

The fog wasn't on any weather report.

The fog wasn't on any weather report.

Welcome to Ireland.

Cut it! Cut it! Cut it!

Hey, Jamie, start thinking of...

People want a list of popular songs with a Star Wars twist.

And I thought of I Wanna Hold Your Han

and The Luke of Love.

We 're out here scouting.

It seemed so simple.

"Let's start here.

"We'll put him on a wire.

He'll go over there."

- Good.

- Cut there!

No fear of heights?

Obviously not.

It's cool, man.

Daisy!

And look to Daisy.

And look back to him.

Now, a little annoyed look to her, Mark.

Great. And cut it.

It's very cool, isn't it?

lreland was always this kind of

touchstone in the schedule

that we would go off and have this distant location,

that, I think, that seemed very far away to Rian.

And when he was there and the experience

was better than he even anticipated,

I think that, at the same time,

was a realization that,

"Oh, my God, the movie's coming to an end,

"in terms of production."

And I'm not sure he's entirely ready for that.

So crazy how close to the end we are.

I mean, we're not.

- We still have a big chunk left, but...

- RI But it is.

It's been a time warp, man.

It's been a weird time warp.

Um...

Well, I thought it was happening today.

I thought, what if I don't keep popping up...

We'll just have to reshoot.

Within seconds, they'll just conk me on the head.

"Stay down, punk! "

The scene...

We can't know its name.

Oh, yeah.

The scene that dare not speak its name.

Okay, thank you.

I'm gonna make them sorry

they ever came up with that idea.

In my mind, Luke's big thing in this movie

is taking on that mantle of becoming a symbol of hope

and inspire a whole new generation.

He genuinely believes the light needs to find another hero.

I wanted Luke's death to be on Luke's terms.

I wanted it to be peaceful.

To feel like a victory.

That's beautiful.

Yeah, Mark is... He's trying so hard.

He's so committed.

- You can see these are long, big days.

- Absolutely true.

And he's just doing so good and being such a soldier.

I don't think he ever got to the point

where he thought,

"Okay, I understand

why Luke has to go at the end of this."

But he was completely devoted to making

what I had written the most powerful

version it can possibly be onscreen.

I'll always be dazzled by the fact that

he had the generosity of spirit

to do that.

And I'll always feel like

I really owe him for that.

You know, I don't take that lightly.

Ooh. Wow.

- That means me.

- That's you, buddy.

- Simple. Direct. Powerful.

- It's nice, right?

- You like it?

- Yeah. I love it.

Wow, I'm glad I didn't know.

I mean, it's an added burden, when I think of it.

I trust him.

I have to trust him.

I'm firmly in Rian's camp now.

Having told him, "I hate everything

you've done to my character,"

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