Star Wars: The Last Jedi: 6 More Tiny Details You Might Have Missed
This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.[hhmc] As with every Star Wars film, The La..
This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
As with every Star Wars film, The Last Jedi comes packed with tiny details that emerge upon a second viewing—or, if you’re preternaturally observant, upon the first. Some of these details help explain plot points that might otherwise feel a little convenient—like the Empire’s new ability to track ships through hyperspace—while others are simply heartwarming callbacks to the original. (Did you notice what Luke Skywalker used as a door in his hideout on Ahch-To? Here, for your perusal, are six little Easter eggs you might have missed—beyond all the fabulous cameos we already told you about.
HYPERSPACE TRACKING
The idea of hyperspace tracking might have seemed a little far-fetched for the Star Wars universe at first—especially given how readily everyone on the Rebel ships seemed to accept that the Empire had pulled off this seemingly impossible feat. But it appears the Star Wars franchise actually planted the seeds for this innovation last year. In Rogue One,some sharp observers have noted, Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) finds a file filled with hyperspace tracking research as she searches for the Death Star plans. This means that the Empire’s efforts to develop this technology was decades in the making—which renders that plot point far more plausible than it might have first seemed.
LUKE SKYWALKER’S REPURPOSED DOOR
Looks like our friend Luke has been watching some HGTV. He decided to salvage one very sentimental object—a part of his old X-Wing—to use as the door to his abode on Ahch-To. (The ship itself, as filmgoers saw, sits below the water, just offshore of the island.) It makes sense that Luke would use part of his old ship as home décor; the two have been through a lot together. And given that Yoda already salvaged the thing from the depths of the Dagobah swamp, it seems only polite to make use of it for as long as possible.
AN OLD JEDI MIND TRICK
Luke’s trick on Kylo Ren at the end of The Last Jedi—in which he uses an astral projection to fool Kylo into thinking his old master is on Crait when in fact Luke has never left Ahch-To—came with one hint to fans as to what was really going on. Eagle-eyed viewers might have noticed something amiss with the Luke that showed up on the salty planet—specifically, the light saber he carried. The blue-bladed weapon was, in fact, the same one that Kylo and Rey destroyed during their battle in Snoke’s chamber. Kylo’s failure to pick up on that detail speaks well to his tunnel vision when it comes to destroying Luke—and makes sense, since Luke was not present for Rey and Kylo’s battle, and so would likely not have known the weapon had already been destroyed. How he managed to hand Leia Han’s gold dice without having a bodily presence, however, we might never know.
HAN’S GOLD DICE
Speaking of that little trinket: if you were wondering why it means so much to Luke and Leia, we’ve got you covered here.
ADMIRAL HOLDO’S JEWELRY
The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson already confirmed that his film’s wealth of space jewelry came courtesy of Carrie Fisher, who insisted during rehearsals that the galaxy needed it. (We couldn’t agree more.) But did you take a close look at Admiral Holdo’s cuffs? According to Screen Rant, their design is an homage to her home planet; they map the constellations visible from the admiral’s home planet, Gatalenta.
“I HAVE FAILED YOU”
Those words, which Luke utters to his former apprentice Kylo Ren, are the same words Obi-Wan Kenobi once spoke to his own apprentice-turned-dark, Anakin Skywalker. Could Kylo, like Anakin, still be saved? If so, let’s hope someone manages to get to him a little sooner than Luke got through to his father. Based on what we saw between him and Rey, there’s a good chance she could convince him—assuming he doesn’t pull her into the Dark Side with him.
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Halle Berry, Catwoman
“You don’t expect it to be as bad as it is sometimes,” Berry toldChelsea Handler of her ill-fated superhero foray. “Then it comes out, and you think, ‘Fuck. That’s what I did?’“ Hey, she’ll always have Storm.Photo: From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Sylvester Stallone, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Even Sly had to admit this one was rotten to its core: “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was the worst,” he said back in 2010. “If you ever want someone to confess to murder, just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes!”Photo: From Universal/Everett Collection.
Angus T. Jones, Two and a Half Men
Five years ago, the half-man from Two and a Half Men found religion and forsook the sitcom that made him famous: “Jake from Two and a Half Men means nothing,” Jones said. “He is a nonexistent character . . . If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I’m on Two and a Half Men and I don’t want to be on it. Please stop filling your head with filth.” He later apologized but still left the series following its 2012-2013 season.Photo: From CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images.
Alec Baldwin, Rock of Ages
The man-who-would-be-Trump did not mince words on this one: in 2013, Baldwin said that he knew Rock of Ages would stink from the start, calling it “a complete disaster.”
“A week in, you go, ‘Oh God, what have I done?’” Baldwin added, noting that actors get an ominous feeling when one of their movies is doomed. “The plane is buffeting, the engine is on fire.”
Photo: From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Robert Pattinson, Twilight
Perhaps no celebrity in the history of Hollywood has come up with more gleeful, creative ways to insult a movie they’ve worked on than Robert Pattinson. The erstwhile Edward Cullen was famously not fond of the Twilight series, as expressed through a vast series of burns. (Watch a supercut here.) “When I read it,” Pattinson said of Stephenie Meyer’s book, “it seemed like it was a book that wasn’t supposed to be published.” Pattinson later noted, “I was convinced that Stephenie was convinced she was Bella.” His psychological evaluation of the author? “This woman is mad!”
Pattinson wasn’t even particularly fond of his character, whose signature facial expression he described as “a mixture of looking slightly constipated and stoned.” His evaluation of the central couple’s relationship, which is largely predicated on Edward wanting to eat Bella, and Bella not caring because she loves him so much? “There’s definitely something wrong with her, and there’s very obviously something wrong with me.”
When an interviewer asked which co-star made his time on the project the most enjoyable, Pattinson credited “SK-II face packs”—which thrilled his Korean beauty-oriented fans, at least. And finally, when Jimmy Fallon pointed out toward the end of Pattinson’s final Breaking Dawn: Part 2 press tour that this was a sad moment for fans, Pattinson gleefully replied, “For them!”
Photo: From Summit Entertainment/Photofest.
John Cusack, Better Off Dead
Cusack infamously hated this 80s hit. Director Savage Steve Holland once said that the actor walked out of a test screening after just 20 minutes and later told Holland, “You know, you tricked me. Better Off Dead was the worst thing I have ever seen. I will never trust you as a director ever again, so don’t speak to me.’“ Cusack has since pushed back on the notion that he hates the movie.Photo: From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Sally Field, The Amazing Spider-Man
And finally, let’s not forget Sally Field, who could have stopped at saying that The Amazing Spider-Man was “not my kind of movie.” Instead, she decided to keep going—saying that she did not try very hard while portraying her fan-favorite character, Aunt May. “It’s really hard to find a three-dimensional character in it,” Field said. “And you work it as much as you can, but you can’t put 10 pounds of shit in a 5-pound bag.”Photo: From Columbia/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock.PreviousNext
Halle Berry, Catwoman
“You don’t expect it to be as bad as it is sometimes,” Berry toldChelsea Handler of her ill-fated superhero foray. “Then it comes out, and you think, ‘Fuck. That’s what I did?’“ Hey, she’ll always have Storm.From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Sylvester Stallone, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Even Sly had to admit this one was rotten to its core: “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was the worst,” he said back in 2010. “If you ever want someone to confess to murder, just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes!”From Universal/Everett Collection.
Angus T. Jones, Two and a Half Men
Five years ago, the half-man from Two and a Half Men found religion and forsook the sitcom that made him famous: “Jake from Two and a Half Men means nothing,” Jones said. “He is a nonexistent character . . . If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I’m on Two and a Half Men and I don’t want to be on it. Please stop filling your head with filth.” He later apologized but still left the series following its 2012-2013 season.From CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images.
Alec Baldwin, Rock of Ages
The man-who-would-be-Trump did not mince words on this one: in 2013, Baldwin said that he knew Rock of Ages would stink from the start, calling it “a complete disaster.”
“A week in, you go, ‘Oh God, what have I done?’” Baldwin added, noting that actors get an ominous feeling when one of their movies is doomed. “The plane is buffeting, the engine is on fire.”
From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
George Clooney, Batman & Robin
Yeah, Clooney knows he’s not at the top of anyone’s list of favorite Batmen. He takes part of the blame for the movie’s failure, although in his defense, the actor also said it was “a difficult film to be good in.”
“With hindsight it’s easy to look back at this and go, ‘Whoa, that was really shit and I was really bad in it,’“ Clooney added.
By Robert Isenberg/Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock.
Joe Jonas, Jonas
Although the middle Jo-Bro admits that “Disney is great at creating fame,” in an as-told-by story for Vulture, he added that in terms of the TV series that made him and his brothers famous, “some of the writing on it was terrible.”
“It just ended up being some weird slapstick humor that only a 10-year-old would laugh at,” Jonas continued. “They took out the kissing scene that Nick had. I had to shave every day because they wanted me to pretend like I was 16 when I was 20 (when the show was done, I cut my hair off and grew as much of a beard as I could). We went along with it at the time, because we thought Disney was our only real shot, and we were terrified that it could all be taken away from us at any moment.”
From Walt Disney Co./Everett Collection.
Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up
The comment Heigl will never forget: back in 2008, the ascendant actress told Vanity Fair that the Judd Apatow film was “a little sexist,” and Hollywood has seemingly never forgiven her.
“It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys,” Heigl continued. “It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
From Universal/Everett Collection.
Christopher Plummer, The Sound of Music
You might have loved Plummer as Captain von Trapp, but Plummer sure didn’t: “Because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey,” he said at a round table for The Hollywood Reporter. “You had to work terribly hard to try and infuse some minuscule bit of humor into it . . . It’s a very good picture [for] what it is. But somebody had to be Peck’s bad boy, and I chose myself.”From 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection.
Stephen King, Maximum Overdrive
Look, King knows this one was a mess. It was his directorial debut, but he still calls it “a moron movie.” As the horror master once conceded, “The problem with that film is that I was coked out of my mind all through its production, and I really didn’t know what I was doing [as the director].”From De Laurentiis Group/Everett Collection.
Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
We actually think Radcliffe did a fine job in the sixth Potter film, but the actor is far harder on himself; as he once put it, “It’s hard to watch a film like Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, because I’m just not very good in it. I hate it. My acting is very one-note, and I can see I got complacent. And what I was trying to do just didn’t come across.”From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Mark Wahlberg, The Happening
No one trashes their own movie quite like Marky Mark. The actor’s general sentiment toward his ill-fated M. Night Shyamalan venture could be summed up in just three words: “Fucking trees, man.”
Back in 2010, the actor explained that Amy Adams wisely turned down a part in the film: “We had actually had the luxury of having lunch before to talk about another movie, and it was a really bad movie that I did. She dodged the bullet. And then I was still able to . . . I don’t want to tell you what movie. . . All right, The Happening. Fuck it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. Fuck it.”
From 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection.
Shia LaBeouf, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Et tu, Mutt? Back in 2010, LaBeouf saw fit to make it known that he was not a fan of the film in which he played Indiana Jones’s son: “I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished,” LaBeouf said. “I have a relationship with Steven [Spielberg] that supersedes our business work. And believe me, I talk to him often enough to know that I’m not out of line. And I would never disrespect the man. But when you drop the ball you drop the ball . . . You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven. But the actor’s job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn’t do it. So that’s my fault.”
The best part of this story actually might be its ending—when Harrison Ford called his former co-star “a fucking idiot” for speaking so harshly about the film they made together.
From Paramount/Everett Collection.
Kevin Spacey, Nine Lives
This one’s actually a two-fer: when he saw a challenge on Twitter to name a single bad Kevin Spacey movie, Kevin Spacey wasted no time in calling out Edison. When another user informed him that Edison was “Oscar-worthy* compared to his more recent release Nine Lives, the actor once again played it cool, replying, “Nobody’s purrrrrrfect!”From Europa Corp/Everett Collection.
Alec Guinness, Star Wars
It’s a well-known fact, but it’s heartbreaking to many Star Wars fans nonetheless: Alec Guinness, who played the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi, did not like those movies at all. In fact, he once described the first in the series as “fairy-tale rubbish” before accepting the part. Still, the actor conceded at the time that the project “could be interesting, perhaps.”
And let’s not forget when a 12-year-old fan told Guinness he had seen the movie 100 times—and Guinness told the kid to never watch it again, in the hopes of preventing him from growing up “in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.”
From Lucasfilm/Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Grease 2
Michelle Pfeiffer does not have a blast when she reminisces about this sequel: “I hated that film with a vengeance and could not believe how bad it was,” she once said, adding, “At the time, I was young and didn’t know better . . . I hear it’s a cult movie now.”From Paramount/Everett Collection.
Robert Pattinson, Twilight
Perhaps no celebrity in the history of Hollywood has come up with more gleeful, creative ways to insult a movie they’ve worked on than Robert Pattinson. The erstwhile Edward Cullen was famously not fond of the Twilight series, as expressed through a vast series of burns. (Watch a supercut here.) “When I read it,” Pattinson said of Stephenie Meyer’s book, “it seemed like it was a book that wasn’t supposed to be published.” Pattinson later noted, “I was convinced that Stephenie was convinced she was Bella.” His psychological evaluation of the author? “This woman is mad!”
Pattinson wasn’t even particularly fond of his character, whose signature facial expression he described as “a mixture of looking slightly constipated and stoned.” His evaluation of the central couple’s relationship, which is largely predicated on Edward wanting to eat Bella, and Bella not caring because she loves him so much? “There’s definitely something wrong with her, and there’s very obviously something wrong with me.”
When an interviewer asked which co-star made his time on the project the most enjoyable, Pattinson credited “SK-II face packs”—which thrilled his Korean beauty-oriented fans, at least. And finally, when Jimmy Fallon pointed out toward the end of Pattinson’s final Breaking Dawn: Part 2 press tour that this was a sad moment for fans, Pattinson gleefully replied, “For them!”
From Summit Entertainment/Photofest.
John Cusack, Better Off Dead
Cusack infamously hated this 80s hit. Director Savage Steve Holland once said that the actor walked out of a test screening after just 20 minutes and later told Holland, “You know, you tricked me. Better Off Dead was the worst thing I have ever seen. I will never trust you as a director ever again, so don’t speak to me.’“ Cusack has since pushed back on the notion that he hates the movie.From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Sally Field, The Amazing Spider-Man
And finally, let’s not forget Sally Field, who could have stopped at saying that The Amazing Spider-Man was “not my kind of movie.” Instead, she decided to keep going—saying that she did not try very hard while portraying her fan-favorite character, Aunt May. “It’s really hard to find a three-dimensional character in it,” Field said. “And you work it as much as you can, but you can’t put 10 pounds of shit in a 5-pound bag.”From Columbia/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock.
Laura BradleyLaura Bradley is a Hollywood writer for VanityFair.com. She was formerly an editorial assistant at Slate and lives in Brooklyn.
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