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

36. It's Ok To Laugh

Star Wars The Last Jedi Hux Domhnall Gleeson
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Despite wanting to get straight into it, one of the movie's earliest scenes is between Poe Dameron and General Hux, with the former having a joke at the latter's expense as a stalling tactic. Johnson wanted to do this to show that the movie wasn't just going to be serious and heavy.

"I really wanted this movie to be fun," he explains, and wanted to outline at the beginning that "we're going to have some fun and it's ok to laugh."

"I immediately found [Hux] very funny," Johnson says. He saw a lot of potential for humour in him, and realised the movie didn't need another heavy character in the First Order, so thought Hux could add a different foil to the bad guys in the movie.

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