SPOILER WARNING: This story contains very mild spoilers forStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Oscar Isaacwanted hisStar Warscharacter to be more than friends with costarJohn Boyega‘s character.
The last film in the trilogy,Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, was released on Friday.
“I mean, there was an absolute natural chemistry with him,” Isaac, 40, said. “I immediately felt very connected to him. I remember, it was an audition and the two of us just, like, did that first scene back to back, butt to butt, you know, just like doing the scene together, practicing it in this room. And it was just like immediately all kind of artifice, everything just collapsed, and there’s like an intimacy that was very just, like, there.”
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“And I think the fact that neither of us shied away from that while we were shooting as well, I think it was just like, these are two guys that are happy being intimate with each other emotionally,” the actor continued. “So it wasn’t actually a total shock [that] people, you know, saw that in there.”
Isaac added, “Personally, I kind of hoped and wished that maybe that would have been taken further in the other films, but I don’t have control over that.”
“It seemed like a natural progression, but sadly enough it’s a time when people are too afraid, I think, of… I don’t know what,” he said, adding, “But if they would’ve been boyfriends, that would have been fun.”
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“They’ve always had a quite loving and open relationship in which it wouldn’t be too weird if it went beyond it,” Boyega, 27, added toVariety. “But at the same time, they are just platonic at the moment.”
In a recent interview withDigital Spy, Isaac said that Poe’s ambiguity is “something that naturally came out with the chemistry with John and those two characters in particular.”
“I think there were some interesting things that could have happened that maybe didn’t — explicitly so,” he added. “But yeah, I think, often, the subtextual stuff is a bit more fun to play.”
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkersees the return ofDaisy Ridleyas Rey, as well as her costars Boyega, Isaac,Adam DriverandKelly Marie Tran.
There are also plenty of new faces to the franchise including Naomi Ackie andKeri Russell, whileStar Warsicons Billy Dee Williams and Anthony Daniels return as Lando Calrissian and C-3PO, respectively.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeris in theaters now.
source: people.com
