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?