Daniel Craig reveals how he nabbed a cameo in Star Wars

Daniel Craig has revealed the origin of his secret cameo as a Stormtrooper in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — he requested for it.

The 54-year-old actor, who’s at the moment selling his return as Southern sleuth Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, mentioned his Star Wars look on the Glad Unhappy Confused Podcast — reported by way of Total Film.

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“I really like [Star Wars], in fact I do. I would not have requested to be in them if I wasn’t a fan,” he stated, revealing he labored his approach in by way of Star Wars assistant director Ben Dixon, who had labored with Craig on a number of James Bond movies.

Craig, who was at Pinewood for a dressing up becoming, revealed: “I simply stated ‘might I get a component on this?’ and he went ‘yeah’.”

Craig’s cameo takes place in the course of the scene through which Rey is captured and is awaiting interrogation by Kylo Ren.

She makes use of her nascent Jedi abilities to hold out a thoughts trick on a Stormtrooper guarding her, which speaks with Craig’s distinctive voice as he lets her go.

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The star revealed his temporary however fulfilling cameo got here collectively in a short time after his chat with Dixon opened the door to the galaxy far, far-off.

“Subsequent day, I am in a f***ing go well with. These items, they don’t match. All I keep in mind is I needed to put on this go well with all day and I could not really feel my fingers on the finish of the day,” Craig stated.

He added: “And I believed: ‘God, these poor individuals need to put on them within the desert’. Kudos to those individuals.”

Regardless of making a giant impression in his single scene, Craig’s gullible Stormtrooper has by no means been seen once more within the Star Wars franchise and is unlikely to indicate up once more — until there is a very stunning Disney+ announcement on the way in which.

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Craig will, nonetheless, be reprising the position of Benoit Blanc once more for a 3rd Knives Out film, after he and director Rian Johnson signed a two-film take care of Netflix.

Glass Onion, which is accessible to stream now, is the primary of these motion pictures and follows Blanc as he’s invited to a homicide thriller occasion on a billionaire’s personal Greek island.

Watch: Trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller