Laura Dern: Star Wars 8 'Once In A Lifetime' Experience

Star Warsnewcomer Laura Dern read she’ll"never forget"her experience working on theThe Last Jedi . Dern , of course , has already lived a pretty astonishing life history both in person and professionally . The daughter of legendary role player and Oscar nominees Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd , Laura Dern has a couple Oscar nomination herself , most recently for playing Reese Witherspoon ’s mother in the escapade dramaWild .

On top of that , she ’s amassed scads of credit throughout her career , including film part inJurassic ParkandJurassic Park III , and on TV in the originalTwin Peaksand its recentrevival of the serial publication . Yet for all the sinful experience Dern has had as a performing artist , nothing seems to compare to her upcoming bit as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo inThe Last Jedi .

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Joining Benicio Del Toro and Kelly Marie Tran as one of three newfangled principal barf members to join the 8th film in the Skywalker family saga , Dern naturally had to persist tight - lipped about her character in a late consultation withTHR , but described her cosmopolitan opinion about becoming a part of the covetedStar Warsfilm existence . blab about putting Holdo ’s costume on for the first time , Dern recalled :

" Once in a lifetime . You ’re dressed to the nines in this awing creative activity that everyone put a lot of effort into , you take the air on coiffe and the camera starts to cast . You finger like an actor on a flick until you see R2 - D2 , and you ’re like , ' Wait a second , I ’m 8 class old , what ’s pass ? I ’m pretending to be in Star Wars , but it ’s literal . ' That ’s what sets it apart from any experience I ’ve ever had . I ’ll never leave it . "

With very little information released about the product thusfar , it will be interesting to see how central Dern ’s role is the plot ofThe Last Jedi . Even though Holdo is a member of the Resistance , she ’ll reportedly have an antagonistic relationship with Poe Dameron ( Oscar Isaac ) , andrumors surface in March 2016about Holdo rent over bid of the Resistance in igniter of a plot development with General Leia ( Carrie Fisher ) . It remains to be seen how much Dern will look in the film , since of the three new cast members , Lucasfilm says Tran will have the biggest purpose .

Now matter how integral Holdo is theThe Last Jedi , it ’s capital see how humble Dern is by landing a role in the motion picture , key the tone most fans would probably have with the same chance . After all , theStar Warssaga has sparked the imaginations of the million of mass all over the world in the past 40 years , and Dern ’s remarks show that she ’s clearly been one of them from an other age . Earlier this yr , Dern remarkedin a tribute to Fisher,“I do n’t know any of us who did n’t encounter Princess Leia for a Halloween , or in our life . What an incredible gift to to see that whole bequest . "