Adam Driver says 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' will be "remarkable".
Adam Driver
The 33-year-old actor stars as villain Kylo Ren in the next instalment of the popular sci-fi franchise, and has taken the time to praise filmmaker Rian Johnson - who is both directing and writing the script for the feature - on his "brilliant" work in bringing together something that he believes will be "remarkable".
He told The Daily Beast website: "[Rian is] a brilliant filmmaker. And he wrote the script also, and he understands the importance of ambiguity and nuance. He wrote something that I think is remarkable."
Adam also admitted he finds it "surreal" to think he's playing the villain in a series as famous as 'Star Wars' is, but he tries not to "overthink" the importance of his role.
He said: "I'm not very good at analysing it, I guess, or even making time to attach meaning to it.
"So much of it is luck, and timing. I work hard but I can work hard in a vacuum. I've been lucky to get these opportunities. It's very surreal to me.
"In working on the jobs--and actually doing the thing--I block that stuff from my mind as much as possible, because it's not good to get nostalgic or overthink it. That might be a good strength of mine: not thinking a lot."
The news comes after Adam recently revealed that the script for 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' is going to similar to that for previous instalment 'The Empire Strikes Back'.
He said at the time: "It's great. It's similar to how 'The Empire Strikes Back' has a different tone.
"For that people always go, 'Oooh, it's dark' but I don't know that it necessarily is. It's just different in tone in a way that I think is great and necessary but also very clear.
"He trusts [that] his audience is ready for nuance and ambiguity.
"He's not dumbing anything down for someone and that's really fun to play."
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