You’re also in Solo: A Star Wars Story! Congratulations. The lifelong dream of every person born after 1970.” This was Tina Fey’s segue into Star Wars chat during her interview with GQ’s July cover star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and is a sentiment that we would also like to echo. After all, who hasn’t fashioned a lightsaber out of toilet roll tubes, foraged sticks or swimming pool noodles at least once in their lifetime?
But while your days of makeshift lightsaber fights are probably behind you (no judgement if not), Waller-Bridge’s Star Wars memories are still fresh in her mind. “When I first arrived, everyone is so excited to be working on Star Wars, even the people who’ve been doing it forever,” she told Tina Fey during their exclusive interview. “You get there, they’re like, ‘You’ve got to come round. We’re going to show you the creatures workshop!’ And then all the people who create the creatures are so excited that they got to make the creatures. You get this whole energy behind the scenes; everyone’s weirdly hysterical the whole time.
“The first time I got into the Millennium Falcon was really cool. Because you can actually get into the spaceship and there were guys underneath who pull a lever and you’re just going, ‘Whuuuur,’” Waller-Bridge explained. “And there’s a screen. They were really excited about the screen because it was the first time they’d had it. Normally it would just be green screen and everyone would have to imagine they were flying through space. We did not have to imagine we were flying through space because they press a button and the guys wiggle the ship and then on the screen in front of us you’d have space.”
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