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Star Wars: The Force Awakens was kept under tight, tight wraps as it was ramping up. While the movie itself was announced right as the Disney/Lucasfilm deal went through, it took years before we learned anything substantial about it. Part of that secrecy involved, apparently, keeping the actors in the dark.
Lupita Nyong’o is on Ellen later today to talk about her role in the movie and the joys of having more than a hundred plastic dots painstakingly glued to your face for months, and the show has a surprisingly substantial three-minute clip of the interview where she gets into the audition process. Nyong’o was told it was a motion-capture role, and that J.J. Abrams was directing, but that was about it. She didn’t even get anything resembling the movie’s script; she was handed something else entirely.
Which sounds like an inefficient process, but on the other hand, the closest look we’ve gotten at her character is as a tiny dot on a poster and in the corner of a still from a trailer. That they’ve managed to keep a central character secret right up until the premiere is fairly impressive. Now all that remains is to see if the movie itself is any good. We’ll find out in just a few days.
(Via Vulture)
