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Adam Driver discusses Kylo Ren, how his relationship working with J.J. Abrams changed from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ to now, and more in this interview for ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ with CinemaBlend Events Editor Eric Eisenberg.

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00:00 "People keep telling me they know me.

00:04 No one does."

00:06 "But I do."

00:10 So this being your third time playing Kylo Ren, and also just having the opportunity

00:17 to work with a different director in Rian Johnson in the making of The Last Jedi, I'm

00:21 curious to what extent you felt that you had kind of a certain authority over who Kylo

00:26 Ren is in the making of this one.

00:28 Oh, that's a good question.

00:31 There is definitely a point that with everything that you have to take ownership over what

00:34 it is you're doing, but then not too much to the point that you feel like you have a

00:38 sense of you know what you're doing and you're closing yourself off to a better idea.

00:43 So, in that sense, I never felt like you have control, which helps because it's very much

00:51 a character who is out of control.

00:54 Sure, yeah.

00:55 I'm kind of controlled by his emotions a little bit, yeah.

00:58 Yeah, and also I'm surrounded by people who are good and give you ideas in the moment.

01:04 The set is so clear and beautiful and it's so much information.

01:08 The costume is so helpful.

01:11 So I got a lot of answers from the things around me.

01:13 Sure.

01:14 And when you were talking with J.J.

01:15 Irams, how did the conversations compare and contrast with what you were talking about

01:18 on Force Awakens?

01:19 Well, there was just a shorthand right away that we didn't have on Force Awakens.

01:24 It was no time wasted of does he like me?

01:27 Am I giving him the right thing?

01:29 Is this the right, you know?

01:31 Right away we started this one with be like, "Okay, there's no idea that we can leave off

01:37 the table.

01:38 Everything that you're thinking and that I'm thinking we have to say and try it because

01:43 we only have this opportunity to do it."

01:45 So there was, regardless of what it was, so there was already an immediacy and familiar

01:53 with each other that there was no time wasted.

01:56 Sure.

01:57 And is there kind of stuff that you personally know about Kylo Ren that maybe isn't seen

02:01 on the big screen?

02:02 Just like that you know for a fact about him?

02:04 Yes.

02:05 Yeah?

02:06 Can you tell me anything?

02:07 No.

02:08 No?

02:09 How does that kind of work into your process?

02:10 Like how much are you thinking about like, I mean, there is a kind of blank spot period

02:12 in between when in the last movie when we saw him have Luke's betrayal and kind of his

02:18 journey with Snoke.

02:19 So how much did you kind of fill in those gaps for yourself?

02:21 You know, we do.

02:22 I don't want to shortchange it by saying what they are because I always feel that that's

02:26 more exciting for an audience to attach meaning.

02:30 And in a sense it doesn't really matter what my opinion is.

02:33 It's for an audience to project their own meaning towards.

02:37 And luckily we had a script that honors ambiguity.

02:41 That he, they I should say, Chris and JJ wrote something that is not always spelled out in

02:48 the dialogue which I love.

02:49 You know, it's not characters saying exactly what they're feeling.

02:54 And again it's a testament to the or keeps in the tradition of the original movies.

02:58 They're filled with so much ambiguity and moments that I guess literally don't make

03:03 sense but there's an emotional truth about them that makes them, makes an audience, you

03:09 know, project meaning.

03:12 Let the final battle begin.

03:19 [Music]

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