Force Awakens actor reveals secrecy around movie script

Force Awakens actor reveals secrecy around movie script

On EW.com, actor Greg Grunberg talks about the secrecy behind the movie script for the Force Awakens. Grunberg, who plays Gorwyn an X-Wing pilot leader, said just imagine that you get a call from a best friend (director J.J. Abrams) that you know saying “’It’s true, I’m doing Star Wars and you can stop begging me, yes, I want you to be in this movie.’ It was a absolute dream come true.”

He said that he had been such a fan of all the actors and everything about the Star Wars universe, although he mentioned that some people may not have loved that some of the Star Wars movies they cannot deny how compelling and awesome it was, and that he could’t believe he was now apart of this universe.

Grunberg then said that during the filming of the Force Awakens there were some moments when his friend J.J. would yell the word, “Cut”, go over to him and then say “Are you f–king kidding me? Did that just happen? Did I just pan from C-3PO to R2-D2 to Han Solo and then to you?”. He then said that during the seven weeks that he spend in London it was like heaven to him. Grunberg even mentioned that it was also crazy because he said “Usually I’m the first person that J.J. calls to bounce ideas off. This one is so top secret, and so on lockdown, that all I can do is ask him, ‘How’s it going?’ and he’s like, ‘Oh, I’m really happy.’ So I know if he’s happy it’s just gonna be incredible.”

Grunberg talked about the secrecy surrounding the Force Awakens. He wasn’t allowed to see the entire script. He said that the only ones who read the entire script where Harrison Ford (Han Solo) and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia). He says:

We got our script pages, only the scenes that we were in. Not even what was being shot that day! It was all on red paper so we couldn’t copy it or take a picture of it. And then we had to give the script pages back at the end of the day. And we didn’t get them the day before to take them home and learn them—Carrie Fisher and I were talking about it several times, like, “This is crazy! An actor does not get to prepare on this movie.”