so apparently while Padmé’s handmaidens were training in “handmaiden bootcamp”, Padmé went and joined in on the training pretending to be a handmaiden too to get to know the girls better, and then later revealed herself to actually be Queen Amidala
so basically“hi i’m padmé the radar technician”
the huge dichotomy between what we expect and what we actually see when kylo ren is unmasked is so interesting to me though. like, kylo beneath the mask has freckles. goddamn freckles. let that sink in. a spray of inconsistently placed freckles across his cheeks. the cgi people could easily have removed that detail, but they chose not to.
remove the mask, and suddenly his height doesn’t make him intimidating – it makes him gangly. a little awkward even. like his arms and legs are too long for him to know what to do with them and he wishes he could take up less room.
remove the mask, and suddenly we’re presented with someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. his face is so open – one look and he’s an open book, he couldn’t be stoic if he wanted to.
remove the mask, and we have literally the last person you’d expect kylo ren to be, and goddamn do I eat that up.
every time I see a video or gif of Kylo Ren in his mask all I can think of is that interview with Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac where Oscar says that their first day on set was Poe’s interrogation scene and Adam didn’t take the mask off in between takes and would lean in and be like “don’t worry I’m under here it’s me” and my heart fills with so much love
I saw an interview where John and Daisy said he even stayed in character the whole time he was on set, and sometimes you’d hear random shouting and screaming coming from somewhere, and people would just go “oh Adam must have a scene coming up soon”
Like…the actors playing the nopetroopers probably noped away from several of Adam’s rehersals irl before they filmed the scene for the movie.
NOPETROOPERS.
There are so many things I love about this post I don’t even know where to start.
