Andy Serkis’ story of discovering his fate in Star Wars: The Last Jedi is almost as anguishing as that of Snoke’s final destiny! It was a secret Serkis started carrying before filming his second Star Wars film as the character.
Serkis found out Snoke’s fate during a secrecy-ensured private script read during the The Last Jedi‘s pre-production. He left that read “knowing I would have to mask a great secret for a very, very long time.” The actor was floored as he first found out that writer-director Rian Johnson had Snoke die in a surprise ending — which came after Snoke ordered his conflicted subordinate Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) kill heroic Rey (Daisy Ridley). Serkis explains….
“I was taken to my trailer on the lot at Pinewood Studios, where I was to read the script for the first time on a tablet. We were never handed printed scripts, and had to hand back the tablet as soon as we were done. I was swiping through the story, and landed on this epic scene, where Snoke is goading Kylo Ren to kill Rey, to fulfill his destiny. It was riveting, the tension building with each line. I just couldn’t work out where it was heading. And then as I swiped up … there it was. The end … not for Rey, not for Kylo Ren, but for the Supreme Leader … just gone. I walked out of the trailer in a state of semi-shock, feeling the weight of knowing I would have to mask a great secret for a very, very long time and that my brother, a massive Star Wars fan, was going to be heartbroken.”
No hard feelings for writer/director Johnson.
“I love what Rian did,” says Serkis, who notes that audiences have been as surprised as he was. “I thought it was a brilliant scene.”
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