Felicity Jones spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her new Netflix film, The Midnight Sky, and during the interview she reflected on her time filming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in the Maldives.
Jones still thinks fondly on a week of filming in the Maldives to capture the sacrifice between her Jyn Erso and Luna’s Cassian Andor, both of whom die so that the plans of the Death Star can make it into Rebel hands.
“We shot it every single evening over a week to get the right light of sunset, to get the perfect pink light, so we knew that scene inside out by the end of the week,” says Jones. “It was just amazing to see how it morphed and shifted and changed. We shot that film in a very visceral, naturalistic, gritty way, which I think is why so many people responded to it. I think they loved that it felt so real and had elements of the ’70s Star Wars films that had that similar feeling of naturalism and reality.”
Watch Rogue One: A Star Wars Story now on Disney+.
