Host Gwendoline Christie also paid tribute to those killed in the attack on Nice, France.
Captain Phasma herself submittedRogue Onefor inspection at Star Wars Celebration in London.
Gwendoline Christie moderated the panel for the upcoming film, although sadly not in her signature chrome armor.
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Those who didn’t know the words cheered and clapped.
Each frame was a revelation, until freeze frame, ominous boom from the speakers.
“How’s your weekend going?”
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Christie asked the crowd, killing time.
She has led a full, complicated existence even at a young age.
If anything, it sounds like she’s a bit weary of intrigue and adventure.
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Diego Luna, who co-stars as Capt.
Kaytoo is blunt, sometimes unpleasantly so.
He speaks without a filter, whether its appropriate or not.
“If you know any old people, he’s like that,” Tudyk said.
“He’s been fighting for years against the Imperial occupation.
He’s a guerrilla fighter,” Whitaker said.
“There’s a series of different rebel groups coming together as an alliance.
All of these different people are parts of that.
By any means necessary, he’ll do what he has to do to save the world.
He was trained by the military, but also the Jedi, too.”
Edwards, meanwhile, recalled the day George Lucas himself visited the set ofRogue One.
“I challenge anyone to have a more surreal experience than showing aStar Warsfilm to George Lucas.
But we’re all having heart attacks.
He just has a really dry sense of humor.”
For better or worse, though?
He didn’t specify.
It probably depends on who controls him and his knowledge.
“So I can soliloquy, or we can sizzle,” he said.
“Okay, so we want to know a little bit about Director Krennic,” Christie said.
“I’ve heard he’s a different kind of villain.”
“Yes, yes he is,” Mendelsohn said.
“He’s an Australian kind!
We do villainy very well.”
He did offer a little more.
“He’s smarter than most of his predecessors,” the actor said.
“Darling, thanks so much,” she said.
Another major villain will be back in the film: Darth Vader.
Finally, the panel ended with another piece of video.
“You guys have come all this way,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy says.
“Should we show a little something?”
This glimpse was not something that’s being shared outside the room.
The Death Troopers leave the home they’ve invaded in ruins.
Is it a sun?
Darth Vader is back.
And theRogue Onepanel is over.
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