20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
10. Mark Hamill Compared The Film's Secrecy To "Being In The CIA"
While every Star Wars movie is produced under a sure veil of secrecy, it sounds like J.J. Abrams and company took this cloak-and-dagger approach especially seriously while shooting the conclusion to the Skywalker Saga.
Even before filming started, Mark Hamill said that revised pages of the script were hand-delivered by a Disney rep who flew to meet him.
And while he was allowed to keep pages of The Last Jedi's script overnight by locking them in a safe, for The Rise of Skywalker he had to hand them back after reading them.
Hilariously, Hamill had a unique comparison for the aggressive secrecy surrounding the script:
"It’s like working for some secret deep state government organisation, like being in the CIA."
In addition to this, The Rise of Skywalker was released without any external test screenings, and even Abrams himself hadn't seen the final cut until literally days before it hit cinemas.