
But of all the new actors - Indira Varma ( Game of Thrones), Sung Kang ( Fast and Furious), Maya Erskine ( PEN15), Moses Ingram ( The Queen’s Gambit), Rupert Friend ( Homeland), O’Shea Jackson Jr. We don’t know Nanjiani’s role yet, so there’s no reason to suspect he actually has a scene with Vader. S tar Wars has such an immense stronghold on pop culture that it would require an amount of relief that… well, that only really good actors can generate. Then magnify that by Stormtroopers, vehicles, outfits, aliens, all of it. Imagine being 3.05 m away from Darth Vader - who will be played in Obi-Wan Kenobi by Hayden Christiansen, reprising his prequel role - and having to pretend Darth Vader is a real person and not the iconic villain from Star Wars. If you grow up watching and loving and breathing Star Wars as a kid, and then you end up cast in a Star Wars project, it must be incredibly tough to lose yourself in your role.

I’ve never thought about it before, but this makes total sense.
