Star Wars: 20 Things You Didn't Know About The Last Jedi
2. Tom Hardy's Cameo As A Stormtrooper Was Cut
Just about everybody wants to make a cameo appearance in Star Wars, and after Daniel Craig made a brilliant appearance as a Stormtrooper in The Force Awakens, fans were eager to see who would show up in The Last Jedi.
Yet despite persistent pre-release reports that Tom Hardy would be playing a Stormtrooper, he was nowhere to be seen or heard, and Rian Johnson later revealed that the role was cut.
The deleted scene was eventually released, showing Hardy playing a southern-accented Stormtrooper who knows Finn, and seeing him suited up in a captain's uniform for his mission expresses surprise that he's climbed the ranks, while seemingly oblivious to Finn's defection from the First Order.
Johnson hasn't ever confirmed why Hardy's role was cut, though it's safe to say that it was either due to pacing - after all, the final cut was 152 minutes long - or because Hardy's southern caricature was perhaps a bit too silly for its own good.