

“In a normal movie, if you are in a ship and it was about to crash, the characters will call their family, and tell them they love them, and cry.

“With Finn, there's a strange element of a balance of the hero thing and the comedy and the awkward quirkiness,” Boyega said. “I was just trying to do a good job in the circumstances without thinking, ‘Ah, this would be a Luke thing,’ or ‘this would be a Han thing,’ which I think might have been the temptation otherwise,” she said.īut Boyega said he watched Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford's auditions on YouTube to help him audition for his role as Finn to get a grasp of what he called “'Star Wars' acting.” This was Ridley’s first film role and she said she decided not to watch the previous “Star Wars” movies beforehand.
