The Force Awakens actor and professional parkour athlete Pip Andersen spoke with Red Carpet News TV and revealed some new details about his character in The Force Awakens.

It was rumored before that Anderesen will have a very brief appearance in the movie, but now the actor himself revealed that he spent significant time on set with Daisy Ridley and John Boyega. He also worked together with Harrison Ford and briefly touched on the movie’s pace, and of course the practical effects. 🙂

Andersen also discussed what it was like wearing his Star Wars costume. As you probably remember Pip did some mo-cap work at the Imaginarium back in October, but it was unclear if it was for TFA (HERE). From Pip’s words it appears that he will be wearing a regular costume since he did some fittings at Pinewood.







Transcript via Cantina member MagnarTheGreat:

Q: And of course it’s a special cast with new faces alongside some very familiar older faces. Did you get a chance on set to meet any of the well-known heroes of the franchise? PA: Well Harrison [Ford] was probably the only one that I worked with on set as well as kind of talked to more. I didn’t get the chance to meet Mark [Hamill] at all which was a bit of a shame, but I did get to see almost all the other main characters do their thing so it was good fun. PA: It felt very much like school almost, like we were kind of kidding with each other all the time. So me, Daisy, and John all kind of were around each other much more than I was with the more experienced guys. Yeah, it was good fun. It was really good. And Daisy and John both [are] absolutely lovely people.

Pip Andersen’s showreel:





So with Daisy Ridley’s gymnastic abilities and bojutsu, plus Pip Andersen’s and Christina Chong’s parkour skills, we can expect some really impressive action sequences in the movie.