It was revealed during Celebration Orlando’s panel for The Last Jedi that John Boyega’s character Finn would be teaming up with Kelly Marie Tran’s new character Rose Tico on some sort of secret mission to infiltrate the First Order. Boyega offered up an interesting comparison via the following comments to IGN when asked about what it was like to return to the First Order under the veil of espionage.
“Well, it’s like imagine you work at McDonald’s. You push your manager into a chute compactor and then a year later you decide to go back dressed as one of the colleagues. It’s not the best situation,” said Boyega. “There’s a lot of chasing, there’s a mission that needs to be completed but that isn’t necessarily something that doesn’t come without a fight and it’s something that he’s gonna have to face for himself.”
Boyega continued, “But it was fun for me. I always wanted to go undercover. Star Wars undercover is different because you wear a hat and all of a sudden no one recognizes you. … I’d be thinking to myself walking in one of those scenes, isn’t anyone gonna go, ‘Wait, isn’t that Finn?’ Do you know what I mean? But such is the magic of Star Wars. It’s fun. It’s fun to do. It’s cool.”
