IR Interview: Ravi Cabot-Conyers & Ryan Kiera Armstrong For "Skeleton Crew" [Lucasfilm/Disney+]

The Inside Reel

Actors Ravi Cabot-Conyers & Ryan Kiera Armstrong talk to The Inside Reel about approach, understanding and details in regards to their new "Star Wars" series on Disney+: "Skeleton Crew."

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00:00♪♪

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00:25You're a Jedi.

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00:34Here's the thing, but you have to play kids in that world

00:38and how they see that world.

00:40Can you talk about that?

00:41Because it has to seem normal to you,

00:43and yet the extremes seem even more normal at times.

00:47Could you talk about playing that from each of your perspectives,

00:50from obviously Ravi, if you could, and then Ryan?

00:53Yeah, so what was so fun was it was led through the eyes of children,

00:57which is a completely new perspective.

00:59We brought a wide-eyed wonder to the set almost,

01:02and it was a lot of fun, and it is a new concept.

01:05And playing into that new fun aspect was a little bit intimidating

01:13leading a Star Wars series and carrying on the legacy,

01:15but it definitely got very comfortable instantly.

01:19And yeah, it is a completely new concept that Jon and Chris,

01:23the showrunners, established, and it was a lot of fun

01:26kind of building it, building off of it,

01:29and they gave us so much creative freedom

01:31to kind of build our characters a little bit more

01:34and strengthen those relationships, but it was a lot of fun.

01:39♪♪

01:46Tomorrow's test will set the course of your entire future.

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01:56Don't you ever want to do anything exciting?

01:59Like what?

02:01What if we could go anywhere we want in the whole galaxy?

02:06A real adventure. No more pretend.

02:10I found something buried in the woods.

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02:14What do you think it is?

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02:19I think it's a lost Jedi temple.

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02:24Hello?

02:27Be careful where you step.

02:29And we were kind of talking about our reactions in the story

02:32and how normal it was.

02:34Like we kind of shot in sequence and in order,

02:37so it was almost like we were living in real time,

02:41and a lot of things were kind of kept secret,

02:43so we had like our honest reactions on the day.

02:47So it was really fun.

02:48Like I felt like I was going along the adventure

02:50with Vernon and all the characters.

02:52Yeah, and it's like just kids in that exaggerated,

02:55you know, Star Wars universe.

02:56It's like we're real kids with real Earth world,

03:00real world qualities.

03:02Hey, droid.

03:03What do you want?

03:05What's your name?

03:06There are some who call me SM33.

03:11Well, SM33, I have some bad news.

03:17I killed your captain.

03:19Most unlikely.

03:21You seem ill-favored for combat.

03:24But it's true.

03:25I stabbed him right in the guts and threw him into space,

03:29which makes me your new captain.

03:34Right?

03:37What am I to do with these stowaways?

03:48Captain.

03:50Hey, no fair.

03:51I wanted to be the captain.

03:53As crew, you may challenge the captain to a battle to the death.

03:56No, that's okay.

04:00Now, SM33.

04:04Show me how to fly my ship.

04:06But they have very unique identities, both of your characters.

04:09They're so much, you know, Fern, the way she approaches things.

04:13Wim, the way you approach things and question things.

04:15And, you know, are you a Jedi?

04:17Are you not?

04:18There's that curiosity.

04:19Can you talk about what each of you sort of glommed onto

04:22or, you know, held onto as far as what the truth

04:25of these characters were for you each?

04:28Yeah, Wim definitely felt so, so truthful to me.

04:32And there's so many things that you learn on a film set,

04:36things that you take away from in real life

04:39and from your characters and the circumstances in the scenes.

04:42So, yeah, there's a lot of things that we took away,

04:45and it was a huge learning experience.

04:47Seven months playing a completely new character

04:50in brand-new shoes with, you know, new circumstances.

04:53And, yeah.

04:54Yeah, I mean, it was seven months.

04:56And I was kind of in this weird place in my life,

05:00and I was finding who I was,

05:01and I think Fern was in the same situation.

05:05So throughout the story,

05:06I was kind of finding myself through Fern,

05:08which is really important.

05:10And, yeah, you kind of see that arc throughout the show,

05:13which is really exciting.

05:15Ready to kiss this rock goodbye?

05:17Depends where we're going.

05:19I have an old friend in mind.

05:25She's an expert on star maps, lost planets,

05:28that kind of thing.

05:29She'll find your home.

05:30What about SM33?

05:31What about what?

05:32Our droid.

05:33He knows how to operate and repair the ship.

05:36We'll be fine without him.

05:38He saved us.

05:40Yeah, we need him.

05:41We're not going back for a droid.

05:42I thought the Jedi never left a man behind.

05:44That's not...

05:47First, it's a droid.

05:49Second, that's not a Jedi thing the Jedi say.

05:54If you don't go, I will.

05:56And me.

05:57And me.

05:58We'll go together.

05:59You try that.

06:00You'll be recaptured and back in the brig before you can say parsec.

06:03But you can do it, right?

06:05You can do anything.

06:06Yeah.

06:07You're a Jedi, right?

06:11Of course.

06:13And my last question to both of you, thank you very much,

06:16is, you know, but it's how you interact with the other people in the scene,

06:19the way you two interact, the way you interact with Jude,

06:22interacting with the robots, interacting with your other friends,

06:24interacting with the pirates.

06:26How would you talk about that and the energy,

06:28bringing that energy to Star Wars, you know, for you guys?

06:32Because it's an adventure.

06:33It's like, you know, the new Goonies for the new generation.

06:37That's you guys.

06:38That's awesome.

06:39It's so exciting.

06:40I mean, this is truly such an honor.

06:43You know,

06:44I just love the concept initially and having Star Wars in the eyes of

06:48children was just such an exciting world to visit and to explore.

06:54And I could not have done it with better people.

06:55Do you mind me asking?

06:56Sorry.

06:57When you heard about it, what was?

06:58When I heard about it, it was, they phrased it as Goonies in space.

07:01I know it was very secretive.

07:03So we didn't get to know much about it until we were like officially joined.

07:07Yeah.

07:08But yeah, sorry.

07:09I don't think we even knew that it was Star Wars for a while because Goonies

07:13in space kind of would have given it away.

07:15But I think it was called like untitled something, something, something.

07:18So yeah, it was very secretive and we all had different codenames.

07:21Like I was Wyatt.

07:22And yeah, dummy sides.

07:24They weren't actually.

07:25Yeah.

07:26They were just like weird names.

07:27Yeah.

07:28It didn't really make sense.

07:29Yeah.

07:30Like, yeah.

07:31This is actually kind of part of the script, but like not really.

07:33Like it was,

07:34it was one of my audition scenes was me and Neil who was called Ned before

07:38like Spider-Man.

07:39We were at a bus stop talking about it.

07:42Yeah.

07:43Yeah.

07:44Yeah.

07:45And I was like, and that's when I said,

07:46don't you ever want to do anything exciting?

07:47A real adventure.

07:48That was that whole part.

07:49Yeah.

07:50Yeah.

07:51So yeah.

07:52Very different.

07:53Yeah.

07:54There's so much like keywords.

07:55Yeah.

07:56Like, oh, grab the lightsaber.

07:57Or like Jedi temple.

07:58It was like lost treasure or something like that.

07:59Yeah.

08:00Wow.

08:01We're lost.

08:02Really lost.

08:03It is dangerous out there in space.

08:04Trust me.

08:05It is.

08:06It is.

08:07It is.

08:08It is.

08:09It is.

08:10It is.

08:11It is.

08:12It is.

08:13It is.

08:14It is.

08:15It is.

08:16It is.

08:17It is.

08:18It is.

08:19It is.

08:20It is.

08:21It is.

08:22Trust no one.

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