STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Star Domhnall Gleeson On STAR WARS: EPISODE IX & Hux's Comedic Characterisation

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Star Domhnall Gleeson On STAR WARS: EPISODE IX & Hux's Comedic Characterisation

Star Wars: The Last Jedi actors Domhnall Gleeson and Daisy Ridley recently sat down with RadioTimes and admitted they know little to nothing about the upcoming sequel. More information after the jump...

By Nebula - Mar 19, 2018 06:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: RadioTimes
While speaking with RadioTimes to promote his new film Peter Rabbit (which also features his Star Wars co-star Daisy Ridley) Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux) discussed the upcoming Star Wars sequel.

Hux was portrayed quite differently in The Last Jedi when compared to his debut appearance in The Force Awakens, and the Irish actor revealed that he hopes his character continues on the comedic path in Star Wars: Episode IX.

What was brilliant [about Star Wars: The Last Jedi] was that it was unexpected. And I’ve got a feeling that what JJ does may also be unexpected. I wasn’t expecting [Hux’s comedy] to be the way it went in VIII, at all. It really surprised me. And I’d say rather than played for laughs, it was written for laughs. We did it with an eye on the comic elements of it.
 

It worked in a completely different way to how it worked in the previous film, and I think that’s really cool.
 

It takes real imagination and confidence to see what happened before – I mean JJ knocked it out of the park with VII – then have the confidence to say ‘I’m not just going to copy what JJ did, I’m going to develop my own thing.’ I just thought that was fantastic.And not unexpected I suppose, or shouldn’t have been, because Rian [Johnson] is so distinctly his own filmmaker.

Gleeson also admitted that he has yet to hear anything from Abrams or Lucasfilm about the newest installment in the Star Wars saga.

I’ve got no idea because I haven’t read a script. I have no idea what direction he’ll take it in, or even if he’ll use me. So I’m hoping that if I’m in the next one, I’ll get to do [some more comedy].

Because JJ’s writing it, I know that if I’m in it I’ll get to do something exciting. So that would be nice.

Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, said the following during the same recent interview with RadioTimes:

Is there a sequel? Oh my god! I've heard nothing about it. I hopefully will soon.

It’s interesting, because after the first one came out we literally went straight into the next one, so there was no time to think about it. And now I’m like, 'Huh, I wonder what I’m going to be doing for six months.'


What do you think about Star Wars: The Last Jedi's reimagining of General Hux's character? What do you hope to see in the upcoming sequel from Ridley and Gleeson's characters?
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CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 3/19/2018, 6:34 AM
"Is there a sequel? Oh my god! I've heard nothing about it. I hopefully will soon."

Was it even in question whether there would be a sequel or not?

AbidNaga
AbidNaga - 3/19/2018, 6:38 AM
@DeadCipher - I'd assume she was being sarcastic in the first part of that sentence. Judging only from the text, not the audio from the interview.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/19/2018, 6:39 AM
@DeadCipher -
It's her attempt at humor, she's bad at it
Nebula
Nebula - 3/19/2018, 6:39 AM
@DeadCipher -
Demba
Demba - 3/19/2018, 6:37 AM
Bring back Luke via force ghost please.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 3/19/2018, 7:08 AM
@Demba - that's pretty much what they indicated would happen in Last Jedi
TheNameIsBetty
TheNameIsBetty - 3/19/2018, 6:38 AM
"Is there a sequel? Oh my god! I've heard nothing about it. I hopefully will soon."

Yes, you are the main character. What the devil....?
MordecaiWayne
MordecaiWayne - 3/19/2018, 6:39 AM
'Written for laughs' like that amazing cut Tom Hardy scene? Jesus, the quality of everything but the acting and visuals in this film left so much to be desired.
BillWonka
BillWonka - 3/19/2018, 6:42 AM
You know you hate a movie when everything people are citing as a reason it was good are the exact reasons you hated it. Hux was thrown away like the lightsaber literally was and so many other things in that movie were as well.
Inktown03
Inktown03 - 3/19/2018, 6:43 AM
TLJ was trash.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/19/2018, 6:44 AM
TFA set up Hux as seemingly connected to a power that Kylo feared, Kylo seemed genuinely intimidated by Hux - and Hux himself was a rather worrying look into the insanity of the First Order and further mirroring the Nazi symbolism used in the movies with his speech. It would have been interesting learning the hierarchy of why Kylo, a force user, is afraid of Hux.

TLJ threw that away, now his character is cringe-worthy comedy the level of a child writing 'your momma' jokes mixed with a pathetic attempt at giving him the motivation of Starscream (A second in command who is clearly trying to overthrow the leader)

Vigor
Vigor - 3/19/2018, 6:51 AM
@Scarilian - I looked at it like they were equals hierarchy wise. It's like you and a colleague trying to get the attention of your boss. Hux was very much a brown-noser. If Kylo treated Hux like shit, he'd probably find some spiteful way to make Kylo's efforts a living hell.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/19/2018, 7:08 AM
@Vigor -
The thing is Hux seemed to be above Kylo, he talks down to Kylo, he's not intimidated by him remotely during TFA. Hux also seemed to be on speaking terms with Snoke more-so than Kylo - at one point Hux just enters the chamber when Snoke is having a private meeting with Kylo, just to belittle Kylo for his mistakes.

Kylo uses force powers to figure out who is stealing the spaceship while Hux immediately figures out why they are going to the planet, what they are after and correctly deduces what they need is in the droid.

Granted i agree he is probably a brown-noser, but he was a brown-noser via being the only competent member of the First Order rather than a snitch to make himself look good. Every plan he had worked, while everything Kylo did failed or backfired.

ELAYEM
ELAYEM - 3/19/2018, 6:49 AM
The comedy was awful in TLJ. Turning Hux into a joke, Luke tossing his lightsaber behind his back, etc.
Really took me out of the movie.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 3/19/2018, 7:26 AM
@ELAYEM - Yeah, all that made it feel like a Marvel movie. Marvel movies are good but Star Wars has always been different.
ELAYEM
ELAYEM - 3/19/2018, 7:41 AM
@Nightwing1015 - Yeah, TFA felt more like a regular MCU movie, so a little more comedic than the OT trilogy, but TLJ felt like the worst of the MCU, with just really bad, out of place, cringy jokes.
cj5590
cj5590 - 3/19/2018, 7:00 AM
More comedy. Oh boy.
TheSaint
TheSaint - 3/19/2018, 7:04 AM
Car crashes are "unexpected" too.
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