by: S. Scott Stanikmas

So the Star Wars panel at San Diego Comic-Con didn’t offer too much in terms of earth-shattering news or new information. We got a few decent nuggets of information but that was all.

One of the interesting things that seemed to slip through the cracks was Oscar Isaac talking about his character and what ties he could possibly have to the original trilogy, particularly A New Hope.

A while back Isaac stated that he thinks his character, Poe Dameron, is from Yavin IV, the moon that the Rebels call home in their plan to blow up the Death Star and overthrow the Empire.

This was never confirmed. It could have been Oscar Isaac just having some fun.

But then he went and answered a question at the panel about what it means to work with legends like Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher and live up to their legacy:

It was taking on the character, he takes on the legacy, not only of Han and Luke, being these heroic pilots, but if you think about it, these characters. They lived those stories that we grew up with, they grew up at the same time as those stories. Poe was probably there watching on Yavin, you know, with the medal ceremony. And I want that, I want to be that hero and take up that mantle, and I think that’s what he does, sometimes even recklessly.

So Oscar Isaac is saying his character as a young man was there at the medal ceremony. This could fit timeline-wise. If Dameron was around five or so during the medal ceremony, when The Force Awakens takes place, he would be around thirty-five years old. Oscar Isaac himself is in that age range. Depending on how old they make Poe Dameron, this could work.

But Oscar Isaac could just be making this up for his own motivational purposes. The characters in the Star Wars universe usually have well thought out backstories though, so maybe this is Isaac’s way of dropping a little fun knowledge the fan’s way.

Either way, it would seem Oscar Isaac is really getting into his role as Poe Dameron. After watching how well he did in Ex Machina, I have no doubt he’s going to crush this role as well.