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Rian made a reference to Julia Robert's (Anna Scott) line from Notting Hill when Kylo proposed to Rey in the throne room!

“The moment where Kylo makes his appeal of “join me” to Rey, and I think Adam captured it so well on that little please he gives at the end, it was important to me that it wasn’t a chess game… [skip a few lines] It’s a very naked, open emotional appeal. It’s his version of, “I’m just a girl standing in front of a guy asking him [to love her], it’s Kylo’s sick evil version of that. But from his perspective, the same way when he tells his version of the story with Luke, I don’t think he’s lying. That’s his experience of that moment. I think he’s telling it honestly.”

- Rian John (transcript from the Empire podcast… I’ll listen to it again to capture the most accurate version but this is what I noted down for now)

flyingstars

And ppl still try to say Reylo isn‘t canon, lol

adamdriverxlife

“Someone once described acting to Driver as a service, and it stuck with him.“That made sense to me,” he says. Even now, “in the midst of all this fuckin’…you know, take pictures with a sheep on my shoulder,” he still feels this way. “Here’s the thing,” he says, and pauses to take a bite of a hamburger.“Life’s shitty, and we’re all gonna die. You have friends, and they die.You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer.That’s what we’re surrounded by all the time. We don’t understand why we’re here, no one’s giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can’t help because they’re just people, and it’s all terrible, and there’s no meaning to anything. What a terrible thing to process! Every. Day. And then you go to sleep. But then sometimes,” he says, leaning forward, “things can suspend themselves for like a minute, and then every once in a while there’s something where you find a connection.”

— Adam Driver for GQ

flyingstars

Beautifully said.

ohtze

I’ve never been a redemption stan, but I gotta say I hope Kylo gets the help he needs and the happy ending he deserves cuz honestly he’s the most miserable Star Wars character I’ve ever seen. Even kill-the-younglings-Anakin had a support base with people who tried to help him, but brickhouse-with-a-baby-face has nothing. Like he’s completely alone and everyone’s given up on him and he fails at everything. He got separated from him family, his uncle basically tried to kill him for being depressed, he was traumatized by a child predator and killed his dad because said predator told him to and the predator was all he had. He’s completely emotionally stunted, and the only thing he’s got going for him is raw physical power which makes people pass him around like a sack of meat. JESUS, this dude has NEVER had a break, no WONDER he’s a hot mess, he’s literally being punished for the karmic mess his grandfather left behind JUST GIVE HIM A CHANCE-

seankayos

If you think about it, we sort of get the life story of Kylo Ren in microcosm within the first minute of his appearance in the movie.

His master attacks him for not being literally perfect according to his master’s standards, and when he tries to stand up for himself, challenge this assessment for the bullshit that it is? He’s attacked out of the blue without so much as a change to properly defend himself or assert his autonomy. And the one affectation that he chose for himself (judging by Snoke’s truly epic sneer at any right)? For that he’s called ridiculous and childish.

People talk about Kylo like he had some life of privilege because of who his parents were, but a cage of gold and gilded genetics is still a cage no matter how you slice it.

theladyvalkyrieskyeart

Reblogging for the incredibly thoughful addition.

misskamala

why is this family like this?

sleemo

Adam Driver had no problem with that shirtless scene in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

— Entertainment Weekly | Dec 23, 2017

After 40 years of Star Wars films, the franchise’s loyal fanbase have come to expect and rely on seeing certain elements in each new film. Things like: lightsaber battles, The Force, cute creatures, Droids, etc.

One of the scenes that fans did not expect to see in Star Wars: The Last Jedi is what writer/director Rian Johnson calls its “beefcake” moment. i.e. when, during one of their surprisingly intimate, Force-enhanced, mind-over-matter-time-and-space conversations, Adam Driver‘s Kylo Ren surprises Daisy Ridley‘s Rey by appearing shirtless.

Rey’s startled reaction — a request that he cover himself with a towel or something — is as appropriate as it is hilarious, for the characters and the audience. But how did we get here, exactly? PEOPLE recently caught up with Johnson to ask him how that scene came to be and whether or not Driver was shy about that “beefcake” moment.

“It’s all about those Force connection scenes,” Johnson says. “The keyword being intimacy. And the idea that this was a way to just, why not step that up? The idea that, what’s even more uncomfortable having a conversation face to face with a person you don’t want to, is if they’re half-naked during it, while you’re having to do it. And so it was just another way of kind of disrobing Kylo literally and figuratively a little bit more, and pushing that sense of these conversations becoming increasingly more intimate.”

Not to mention the fact that by this point during filming, Driver’s physique was particularly photogenic.

“Adam looks so damn good because he’d been training hardcore for the past six months for those fight scenes. I’m like, ‘Eh. He looks so good. We should put him up there.’ ”

And how did Driver feel about his beefcake moment? Was he shy about it?

“No, no, he’s good. He’s great,” assures Johnson. “He knew he looked good.”