9 Actors You Didn’t Know Were In Movies

by Andrew Pollard

1. Daniel Craig In The Force Awakens

He may well be about to wrap up his time as 007 in next year's No Time to Die, but James Bond isn't the only fan favourite role that Daniel Craig has had the chance to play in recent years.

While he's currently impressing in Knives Out, the English actor actually got to head to a galaxy far, far away in J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

A role in Star Wars should be a huge deal, for sure, and it clearly was for Craig - the actor himself enthusing about the iconic franchise in plentiful interviews over the years - yet you wouldn't know Daniel Craig was in The Force Awakens... unless you knew Daniel Craig was in The Force Awakens.

After Daisy Ridley's Rey finds herself held prisoner at the behest of Kylo Ren, a scene plays out where Rey uses her burgeoning Force abilities to mind control a Stormtrooper. And that Stormtrooper, you guessed it, was played by Daniel Craig.

It was brief, it was uncredited, but Daniel Craig's Star Wars debut was certainly a memorable one in a scene that saw Rey first begin to embrace The Force.

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