Oscar Isaac talks to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast about Star Wars and X-Men to Moon Knight, Dune, Frankenstein and his performance in the new season of Beef, and discusses the ‘somehow Palpatine returned’ line in The Rise of Skywalker.
On that infamous line, Isaac said “Yeah, those were reshoots. We had to do reshoots. When I look at it now, I’m like, ‘The wig’s pretty good.’ I had already cut my hair and everything. Those are like surgical strikes where you come in and try to make sense of it all while they’re scrambling to get everything done. That line was a new addition right at the end.”
He continued, “There was a lot of movement and flux throughout the whole process. Had you asked me at that moment if I thought that was going to be the one that everyone would remember…”
Watch the interview in full here and stream Isaac as Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequels on Disney+.
