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

24. Maz Kanata

Star Wars The Force Awakens Maz Kanata
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Maz Kanata is hardly in the movie, but early drafts had a lot more of the character in them. She was originally on the cruiser with the Resistance, but Johnson slowly found it'd be more economical to give so much of what she was doing to the main characters instead.

He does, however, wish that he could've worked with Lupita Nyong'o more, and also reveals that the jet-pack she uses in her scene was a very last-minute idea.

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