Forest Whitaker Reveals The Similarities Between Saw Gerrera and Darth Vader

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Entertainment Weekly has posted their fourth article for the week with new revelations about the highly anticipated first Star Wars stand-alone movie. This time they focus on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s character Saw Gerrera, played by actor Forest Whitaker…

 

 

The new trailer for the highly anticipated “Star Wars” film is just hours away from becoming reality. As we patiently await, Entertainment Weekly’s Anthony Breznican has revealed yet another exclusive story about the upcoming Rogue One film.

 

This one deals with galactic freedom fighter Saw Gerrera, a human male who fights against the Empire and its new stranglehold on the galaxy. Saw is portrayed by actor Forest Whitaker, who takes the character’s backstory from the animated Clone Wars TV series and brings it to life in the new live-action ‘Rogue One’ film.

 

Tonight, we may get an opportunity to get more from Saw and other Star Wars characters in the announced new trailer for Rogue One which will air during NBC’s broadcast of the Olympic Games in Rio.

 

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From EW:

 

In a chat with Entertainment Weekly, Forest Whitaker confirms that his ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ character Saw Gerrera shares some similarities to Darth Vader. The actor said that he and Vader both rely on technology to keep them alive.

“This is his armored suit for flight, but also for maintenance,” Whitaker told Entertainment Weekly. “He’s been through so many conflicts and many wars, so it’s also about [repairing] some of the many injuries he’s had. He wears it all the time.”

A man with a raspy voice. His body locked in life-giving armor. His face, as well as his soul, scarred by the violent actions of his past. We’ll see two such figures in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, both of them friends who once fought alongside each other before the rise of the Empire. One is Darth Vader. The other is Forest Whitaker’s extremist freedom-fighter Saw Gerrera.

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Gerrera, a militia warrior from the occupied planet Onderon, parted ways with the Sith lord when he was still a bellicose young Jedi named Anakin Skywalker. Now they are sworn enemies across the galactic divide, although both are hardliners who aren’t timid about using brutal tactics in the fight to control the galaxy.

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Whitaker also discussed Felicity Jones’ character Jyn Erso.
 
“He’s really close to her, and they have a very powerful relationship,” Whitaker says. “He’s talking about how you maybe make compromises that may harm people, or may harm the situation, or people may question it, but if you’re doing it for the good, there’s a positive thing about that. But what does it make you become? And how do you change as a person?”

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The actor briefly touched on the interesting topic about his change in appearance in the trailers:
 
Some theorized that this was a alteration brought about during reshoots for the movie, but Whitaker says it’s a switch that happens within the story. Given the extra gray in his beard, maybe we’re seeing Saw at two different stages of his life.

“We made some decisions about how the character was progressing. They had a lot of opportunity to make tweaks and different things,” he says. “You’ll see both.”

 

For the full interview go to EW.

 

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39 thoughts on “Forest Whitaker Reveals The Similarities Between Saw Gerrera and Darth Vader

  • August 12, 2016 at 1:44 am
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    So he has hair in the movie,or not? In first teaser he has no hair,but after first teaser in every picture,he has it

    • August 12, 2016 at 1:54 am
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      Both. He has hair at some point and presumably shaves it off.

      • August 12, 2016 at 1:57 am
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        I think it’s because of Reshoots. It’s weird that LEGO Rogue one sets doesn’t have him as minifigure,the probably didn’t know how he will look like

        • August 12, 2016 at 2:11 am
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          Not to do with the reshoots — read the last quote above

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:50 am
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            Missed that quote,thanks

          • August 12, 2016 at 4:17 am
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            Yeah, we could tell.

        • August 12, 2016 at 2:40 am
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          Did you even read the article before posting?

          • August 12, 2016 at 3:36 am
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            Most don’t these days. FB is full of articles with insane titles, and 2/3rds into the article they talk about how no one actually reads the articles. I think the same phenomenon is at play here, too…

  • August 12, 2016 at 1:46 am
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    After reading this, I would really love to see a Saw Gerrera/Darth Vader face-off in Rogue One.

    • August 12, 2016 at 1:56 am
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      It would be cool if Jyn Urso steals plans and Vader uses the force to stop her,and behind Vader, Saw Gerrera calls him Anakin,and he turns to kill him,and Urso escapes.

      • August 12, 2016 at 1:57 am
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        Works for me.

        • August 12, 2016 at 2:22 am
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          How does Obi-Wan know?

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:39 am
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            Not necessarily. I remember Dave Filoni during the Ahsoka panel at Celebration say that she didn’t know Vader was Anakin right away because she was looking in the force for Anakin and couldn’t fine him.Obi-Wan could be the same.

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:41 am
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            yes,but that’s 5 years before ANH, by the time of ANH, a lot of them knew

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:48 am
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            Ben knew that Anakin was now called Darth Vader. So when that name starts popping up in the news, of course he’ll be like “oh, so I DIDN’T kill him. …Fuck.”

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:56 am
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            But couldn’t sense Palpatine was a Sith?

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:57 am
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            You’re not going to trick me into trying to defend the logic of the prequels

          • August 12, 2016 at 3:03 am
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            Lol. Wouldn’t dream of it.

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:58 am
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            They referred to Anakin as Darth Vader even before the suit.

        • August 12, 2016 at 2:25 am
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          At that point pretty much everyone knows. Except Luke lol

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:41 am
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            Literally no-one knows except Obi-Wan, Yoda, Luke, Leia and Han until 6 years before TFA according to current canon.

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:43 am
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            Obi-Wan heard in cantina that Vader survived, there were rumors,not many of them knew,but some of them did. I am not saying Saw Gerrera knows he is Vader,but if he does, I would be fine with that. Maybe Ahsoka will tell him that in Rebels,who knows

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:47 am
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            Actually, very few people know. Only the Jedi Council members that weren’t killed in O66 knew, and that was only because they were masters of the Force. (Also, security footage). There was never a “see my shadowy partner here? Yeah, he was the master warrior Jedi” announcement from the Emperor’s office or anything.

          • August 12, 2016 at 2:58 am
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            No one knows…

    • August 12, 2016 at 4:13 am
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      Perhaps they do….and perhaps Saw doesn’t come out of the encounter very well…

  • August 12, 2016 at 3:53 am
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    Colored contact lenses are cheap. Why to ignore such thing?

    • August 12, 2016 at 4:16 am
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      Because that would look ugly.

      • August 12, 2016 at 6:06 am
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        He’s Forest Whitaker not Idris Elba. BTW, Heindall doesn’t approve your comment.

  • August 12, 2016 at 4:40 am
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    what time is the trailer playing tonight?

    • August 12, 2016 at 4:46 am
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      They released a statement saying that it’s been delayed until tomorrow instead.

      • August 12, 2016 at 4:59 am
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        Haha you’re funny.

        • August 12, 2016 at 5:13 am
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          Honestly though – when the heck is the trailer coming?

  • August 12, 2016 at 4:53 am
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    4 am here,I am dying to see Trailer

    • August 12, 2016 at 5:29 am
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      Yup. This is stupid. Why frustrate people by making them wait so long? There’s no point. And think about the kids who aren’t going to be able to watch the trailer on release because it’s so late at night. I think this is poorly done.

  • August 12, 2016 at 5:50 am
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    Wow, this is interesting. Bare with me here. First a lot of reshoots… Not a big deal, they are normal but a little bit of a concern. Next no footage out of celebration… Okay not the end of the world, two things though. One: they just did a bunch of reshoots, so maybe that is a good reason for no trailer. Two: it is only a few months off from your big movie and you still don’t have an “official” tailed and the beginnings of an media push to promote your movie. (Starting to get worried here). Now we have a trailer and you put it out during the olympics. Okay, I guess, not that 90 percent of your coulee audience even has cable any more, let alone is interested in the olympics… But now it is 10:48 EST. and I see nothing online posted. Is this another exclusive just for those watching the olympics? Who most of them don’t even know, let alone care what Star Wars is? I’m super lost focks!

  • August 13, 2016 at 12:09 am
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    I feel like Saw is the character we should have gotten in Lor San Tekka.

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