Laura Dern played Vice Admiral Holdo in the Rian Johnson-directed movie, which came out in 2017. And recalling when she was first offered the role, she said Johnson was speaking to her about it at great lengths before she realised it was anything even like a Star Wars project.

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In a video for Vanity Fair, she recalled: “Rian Johnson invited me to lunch to talk about a role in a movie.

“He started to talk about this thing he was writing and how he was seeing it, and describing this world. ‘It’s just like in space, when everything is so overwhelming and you have to take command of your ship.’

“And I was like, ‘my God, yes, that’s it! So where does it take place?’

“And he was like, ‘no, it’s space’.