The movie's actor reveals that director J. J. Abrams told him the role offered to him was meant to die shortly after his introduction.
- Dec 22, 2015
AceShowbiz - Turns out one of the new characters in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has a bigger role than it was planned before. Oscar Isaac, who plays X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron, has revealed that his character was supposed to be killed off shortly after his introduction in the movie.
In a new interview with GQ magazine, the actor says he was summoned to Paris to talk with director J. J. Abrams about the role offered to him. Recalling his conversation with the filmmaker, Isaac says Abrams described his character as "amazing" and "he opens the whole movie," "and then,.... He dies." Abrams also promised that the character would "die spectacularly."
After Isaac read part of the scripts, he "went back home [to New York], and I thought about it." He eventually agreed to do it, saying, "Then I wrote [Abrams] and said, 'Okay. I'll do it!' I figured it would be a cameo: I'll come in, do my thing, and maybe it's actually better not to have to sign myself up for three movies."
By that time, things had changed. Abrams quickly wrote back, "Never mind. I've figured it out. You're in the whole movie now." Issac says, "I was like, 'Holy s**t! Alright, cool.' "
[SPOILER ALERT!] Isaac's Poe Dameron appears to be dead in a TIE fighter crash early in "The Force Awakens". He, however, somehow survives the crash and reappears in the second half of the film.
