Basically everyone is talking about Vanity Fair’s exclusive photos from The Last Jedi and with good reason – they are simply AWESOME. We got to see some returning faces as well as an assortment of brand new characters. To help us learn more about these additions to the Star Wars saga, Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo expanded on Vanity Fair’s piece by talking about the new characters played by Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro, the patrons of the new casino city named Canto Bight, an unmasked Captain Phasma with her new staff, and much more.
Unlike most film-set photo shoots, there are more than slick costumes and stunning locations on display in Vanity Fair’s exclusive images from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Annie Leibovitz traveled to the rocky shores of Ireland and the closely guarded Pinewood Studios set to photograph some never-before-seen characters and confirm a rumor or two in the process. Lucasfilm has mastered the art of secret-keeping—remember that Rey didn’t hold a lightsaber in any The Force Awakens marketing— but is ready to pull back the curtain on some of The Last Jedi’s mysteries in these exclusive photographs from the Summer issue of Vanity Fair.
To help point out some significant details you might have missed, VF.com asked Pablo Hidalgo— Lucasfilm Story Group creative executive and, in the words of The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, “keeper of all arcane details of Star Wars”—to explain some of the portfolio’s hidden depths.
