“I ask Ehrenreich if it’s possible to go Day-Lewis deep on a character like this. “It’s easier than you’d think,” he says, “because there’s so much information on Star Wars. I did a movie about the Iraq War right before this, and there’s almost as much information about Star Wars.” He delved into Wookieepedia, a fan-curated online reference source that’s exactly what it sounds like. He likes the idea that everything the characters do in this film, every place they visit, will become part of the lexicon. They’re writing directly into the canon. “The wardrobe is a big part,” he says. “I remember doing my audition on the Falcon, putting on the jeans with the Corellian bloodstripe”—per Wookieepedia, “an award for conspicuous gallantry given by the Corellian military forces”—“and thinking, Oh, yeah. This is Star Wars. Like, this really is Star Wars now.”
In case cactuses become the new trendy thing I want to make it clear that I hate cactuses. They’re evil little plants that grow everywhere and no matter how much it looks like you can touch them you cannot. The ones that look touchable are especially painful. They don’t just poke, they sting. They’re not cute, they are soccer ball ruiners.
They taste good though.
The science channel is funny to me because it’s like the antithesis of the history channel. Science channel is like “What’s this mysterious thing caught on satellite images? Is it aliens? Secret government cover-ups? Occult fascist super weapons? Nope, it’s algae.”
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