Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 39 Things We Learned From The Director's Commentary

30. The BBest Advice

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As you might expect, Johnson spoke to those involved with making The Force Awakens to get some advice, but the best instruction he got from that movie's editors is a little surprising.

They told him: "In every single scene just shoot a cutaway of BB-8, and you’ll never regret it.” Throughout the movie we do get a number of quick cuts to BB-8, who Johnson previously described as being like Buster Keaton.

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