Greg Grunberg: The Force Awakens is All About Story and Family
GregFor some weeks now we’ve been investigating Greg Grunberg’s character from The Force Awakens, and we managed to unveil plenty of details, including that he is playing an X-Wing pilot in the Sequel Trilogy. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor shared some new minor details about the upcoming movie, while discussing his excitement for the project…
Q: I assume you’re on lock down about your Force Awakens role but is there anything you can tell us?
A: I can’t talk about who I play or what I did. But just imagine that you get a call from your best friend saying, “It’s true, I’m doing Star Wars and you can stop begging me, yes, I want you to be in this movie.” It was an absolute dream come true. Like there were moments when J.J. would yell, ‘Cut’,’ and then come over to me and go, ‘Are you f–king kidding me? Did that just happen? Did I just pan from C-3PO to R2-D2 to Han Solo and then to you?’ I spent seven weeks in London and it was heaven.
Greg Grunberg
Q: I know you can’t talk about the content of the film. But just in terms of your sense of the film, how it’s going to compare to what’s come before…
A: I can only say that practical effects are as important—if not more important—than the special effects. And it’s all about the story and family. I mean that’s what J.J. is all about. And these new characters, these actors are unbelievable. They’re so well cast. We got our script pages, only the scenes that we were in. Not even what was being shot that day! It was all on red paper so we couldn’t copy it or take a picture of it. And then we had to give the script pages back at the end of the day.
Q: Speaking of the trailer, how much of the scope of the movie do you think that gives you a sense of? Are there like massive set-pieces that aren’t even hinted at?
A: I don’t know! I have not read the full script. Harrison [Ford] and Carrie read the script, they had a roundtable in the early day—I wasn’t part of that. Everything I see I get more excited about. Everything looks like a poster. Every shot I’ve seen I’m like, “That’s a poster! That’s such an iconic image.” It’s really being done the right way. Disney is so brilliant to have done what they did, with all the other films they’re doing on individual characters, really squeezing this franchise in a really good creative way.
I assume that last bit about Disney doing other films based on individual characters was just a wild guess by Grunberg. Or is it? At least we know Rogue One is not based on an individual, but probably the second Anthology movie is…
Not sure if real