Daisy Ridley Says the Lightsaber Fights inThe Rise of SkywalkerWere Easier to Film for One Simple Reason

It ’s all in the props .

In a TV for WIRED , whereinRidleydiscusses her internet front and delights at learning a bunch of sappy trivia about her digital footprint , theStar Warsactress drop one fascinating tidbit about the motion-picture photography of The Rise of Skywalker . She say that , in this film , the lightsaber combat were easy to film , and that they were lighter and faster . The reason for this , she explains , is that the props they were using were themselves loose .

“ It was more like broadsword fighting , which is n’t technically what it ’s guess to be , because lightsabers are think to be light by nature , ” she explains . “ So they actually made them lite for us . We in this film in reality have perhaps one of the most epic engagement in Star Wars . ”

Daisy Ridley as Rey.

Daisy Ridley as Rey.Image: Lucasfilm/Disney

That ’s challenging to me — a move that , mayhap , communicates the growing capabilities of both Rey and Ben , or just perhaps the indigence to choreograph quicker , more visually dense combat . But the exercising weight of the props influence stage dancing is something that literally never come to me . slap-up .

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Star warfare : The Rise of Skywalkercomes out December 20 , 2019 .

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