sleemo: sleemo: A preview of Empire’s cover story which is out tomorrow 11/30 Transcript below
sleemo:sleemo:A preview of Empire’s cover story which is out tomorrow 11/30Transcript below. Thanks for your help @andthebalanceKylo RenThere are sins so dark, no amount of penitence can erase them. Torture; treason; Red Hot Chili Peppers concerts - things so heinous they are but guarantee an eternity in The Bad Place. For Kylo Ren, that fateful moment came when he abruptly plunged a lightsaber into Star Wars’ best-loved scoundrel. To forgive is divine, but all the Hail Mothmas and Our Fistos in the galaxy surely can’t buy salvation for the man who killed Han Solo.“I know,” says Adam Driver, wincing apologetically. “That was Han Solo! It was so moving being a fan of those movies and taking in what all that meant.” Kylo Ren — Ben Solo — had murdered his father, twisting a ‘saber in Han’s gut and casting his body into the abyss. “I really did look at Harrison as a father figure,” Driver recalls. “That whole scene was nerve-racking but the feeling on set was very warm; it was almost a bonding moment between the two of us – even though the act was vicious and cold-blooded.”With Solo’s death, Kylo made those last, difficult steps from light side to dark, severing familial ties for the cold embrace of his surrogate father, the twisted Snoke. But if Return of the Jedi taught us anything, it’s that no-one, not even a masked villain, is ever truly beyond redemption. For Driver, even at his darkest point Ren is more than his evil agenda suggests.“I never thought of him as a villain at all — even when we were doing the first one,” he says. “Because what does that really mean? People don’t think of themselves as being the villain, they think of themselves as being right. When people feel they’re morally justified, there’s no end to the things they’ll do. That’s more dangerous and much more exciting.”In the brief time we’ve known him, the First Order’s tempestuous enforcer has ricocheted between emotions like a blaster in a trash compactor, pinging from rage to grief to frustration to sadistic glee. But beneath Ren’s volatile exterior, Driver imbued the character with a fragile humanity, something Vader — save in his final gasping moments — never truly manifested. The result is Star Wars’ most layered and believable antagonist to date; a hugely powerful, highly temperamental man prone to adolescent tantrums. Darth Trump comparisons notwithstanding, if ever there was a Star Wars antagonist we can relate to, it’s the brooding Knight of Ren.“We find Darth Vader already completely committed; I was curious about starting with someone who was less together, who was starting in a place of self-doubt,” He pauses, considering his next words carefully. “The title of The Force Awakens wasn’t just referring to the light side, it was the dark side as well.”Kylo’s true nature — and a backstory that was deliberately omitted from VII — will move to the forefront in The Last Jedi. For Ren, both figuratively and literally, the mask is coming off for good. -- source link
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