The Goonies in space? Jude Law brings Star Wars to Trafalgar Square

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The Brit leads a cast of kids in Disney's latest Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Jude, good to see you buddy. Congratulations on the show. I'm hearing kind of an Amblin-y feel, kind of Goonies in space.

00:06Does that make you kind of an intergalactic sloth or something more swashbuckling than that?

00:10Good question. Yes, he is sort of, yeah, he is a little bit of that. He is a little bit of that.

00:17He's best character in the Goonies.

00:19Because he's kind of, you know, but yeah, because like him, he's all, Jod is also kind of hard to pin down.

00:24Like, is he a bad guy? Is he a good guy? Is he going to help them? Is he not going to help them?

00:29And also, he's like a kind of overgrown child in many ways. He's not fully formed.

00:34And what I loved about the dynamic was that Jod is, Jod didn't really have a childhood, is how I put it.

00:40So he sees, he doesn't understand that these guys are kids.

00:43He just thinks they're small adults and doesn't understand why they kind of complain about missing mum and dad

00:48or that they get hungry or they can't fly a spaceship.

00:50It's always, it's like, come on, get on with it. So there was lots to play with.

00:55And no sense of disappointment that you didn't get to robe up and throw a lightsaber around at all.

01:00That's we know of anyway.

01:02Who's to say I don't?

01:03Who's to say? Very good.

01:05And finally, we saw you having a lot of fun with Peter Pan and Wendy working with a young cast.

01:10It must be an incredible learning experience for these kids to get to work with an actor as experienced as you.

01:16I don't know about that.

01:17But I was wondering, do you feel like you learn something when you're working with actors that are kind of unformed

01:22and don't have that method and process ingrained into them at the time?

01:25First of all, what really astonished me actually about these four was how adept they were.

01:31They really knew their stuff and they arrived very well prepared and they took it really seriously.

01:35And the journey takes us through some really dark moments and their emotion,

01:41their connection to their emotions is pretty astonishing.

01:44But then they were kids.

01:45So they brought this wonderful sense of play and joy and, you know, every day was an adventure.

01:51And that's a lovely tone to work in, especially on a piece like this.

01:55Kept it light, you know, and it was infectious, I mean, to me, to the whole crew.

01:59We sort of saw it through their eyes.

02:01And if I'm honest, that is at the heart of this show, you know, seeing it through the eyes of children.

02:07There's real jeopardy, but there's also real wonderment and magic.

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