Felicity Jones Talks Rogue One Reshoots and Who Was Instrumental for Her Casting as Jyn Erso

Felicity Jones

Oscar nominee Felicity Jones sat down with The Hollywood Reporter this week and talked about the ‘Rogue One’ reshoots, her friendship with actor Riz Ahmed and how Kathleen Kennedy suggested her for the role of Jyn Erso. Read on for more!

 

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star Felicity Jones has been tasked with taking on a very physical female lead role for the new spin-off film – and after Daisy Ridley raised the bar on that front as Rey in last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, that’s no small job. Jones stars as the co-leader of a Rebel group that takes on a galactic empire who is in the process of creating the ultimate power in the universe.

 

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jones briefly discussed the ‘Rogue One’ reshoots, talked a little bit about her Jyn Erso character in the upcoming movie, added a little more insight into how she scored the female lead, and revealed a few other things – including how she prepared for her troubled delinquent turned Rebel hero role.

 

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Jones spoke about trying to find Jyn and how she spent hours watching music videos to enhance the role and bring out the fight in her.

“So much of Jyn is movement,” says Jones. “It became a very important part of finding her. She walks almost a bit like a caged animal. Her fight sequences become like dances.”

 

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It seems that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy was the first to suggest her Jyn, and Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn sealed the deal after looking through a field of contenders for the part. Kennedy recently weighed in on Felicity:

“Alan was incredibly excited by Felicity’s work and loved her as an actress,” says Kennedy. “She’s relatively petite, but you would never know it. I mean, she comes off very strong and physical and capable, and all of those things were the qualities that we were looking for.”

 

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The the 32-year-old British actress also shared her thoughts on the importance of reshoots and played down the ones done for ‘Rogue One’.

“I’m sure if you picked up the phone and called every single large, technical movie and said, ‘You ever gone in and done reshoots?’ they’d all say, ‘Oh God, yes,’ ” she says. “So why has it turned into a big story? Because it’s Star Wars, and they put a spotlight and scrutinize every single thing that gets done. But it was always planned and nothing unusual.” In other words, these are not the droids you are looking for.
Jones plays down the reshoots as well. “Obviously when you come to the edit, you see the film come together and you think, ‘Actually, we could do this better, and this would make more sense if we did this,’ ” she says. “I’ve done it so many times. I mean, you wouldn’t just give your first draft on this story, would you?”

 

Jones lives in London, and although her group of industry friends is small, she does share a personal friendship with fellow ‘Rogue One’ actor Riz Ahmed (Bodhi Rook). It seems “it’s a small world after all”….

 

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” hits the big screen in December.

 

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May the Force be with us!

 

 

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33 thoughts on “Felicity Jones Talks Rogue One Reshoots and Who Was Instrumental for Her Casting as Jyn Erso

  • October 12, 2016 at 6:50 pm
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    Tired of hearing about reshoots. Can we just wait until the finished product is out before deciding whether or not it’s crap?

    • October 12, 2016 at 7:55 pm
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      I agree, and as stated above it gets scrutinized so much BECAUSE it is Star Wars. I think from what I’ve seen so far that we are going to end up with a fine product. People are going to love it, people are going to hate it, much like any Star Wars movie, or any movie in general for that matter. I personally am quite excited and don’t see any reason (as of yet) to be worried.

      • October 13, 2016 at 12:08 am
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        What’s absolutely wizard bonkers, is that if we scrutinized the original 1976-7 production and ESB production in the same way – we would have burned down Lucasfilm.

        • October 13, 2016 at 1:26 am
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          I’ve always thought this too. If people this day and and age actually critiqued the original films the same way they do now, and didn’t have nostalgia goggles on they’d find plenty to tear apart too.

  • October 12, 2016 at 7:01 pm
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    I still don’t understand these reshoots. They usually make time for them right? Which is why I think it’s weird that Alexandre Desplat couldn’t compose because of the “scheduled” reshoots.

    • October 13, 2016 at 1:24 am
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      I was wondering why he dropped out too?

      I think he just decided he didn’t want to do it at the last minute and used the scheduling conflict as an excuse. Which is fine, if a composer doesn’t want to compose for a movie they shouldn’t be forced too. Plus, if they are working on something they actually don’t want to do, they won’t put their heart and soul into it therefore the quality will drop.

    • October 13, 2016 at 5:28 am
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      It looks to me like the reshoots were planned, but got rescheduled. That’s how people found out about them in the first place, from the rescheduling.

  • October 12, 2016 at 7:18 pm
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    “Her fight sequences become like dances.”

    This doesn’t sound good.

  • October 12, 2016 at 7:25 pm
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    What really makes me worried are not these “scheduled” reshoots, but the fact (or at least, rumor) that Edwards is not in charge of the final cut.

  • October 12, 2016 at 7:51 pm
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    I love Felicity, but that bit sounds like damage control to me

    • October 12, 2016 at 8:38 pm
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      Not really.

      • October 12, 2016 at 8:48 pm
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        Well, 3 months later they keep repeating how “usual and normal those are” every chance they get. Besides, I wrote “to me”…

        • October 12, 2016 at 8:56 pm
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          Well, if people keep ranting about this stuff, it kind of needs to be reiterated…especially when all this was primarily blown out of proportion from unfounded reddit rumors.

          Felicity is 100% correct: ALL major films have reshoots. It’s a fact of life, and it is no big deal.

        • October 12, 2016 at 10:33 pm
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          Because people online and publications like the Hollywood Reporter are intent on making it into a big deal b/c a movie in peril is more interesting.

    • October 12, 2016 at 10:33 pm
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      No, it’s pretty basic storytelling 101.

    • October 13, 2016 at 1:19 am
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      I find your lack of faith disturbing…

      • October 13, 2016 at 1:25 am
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        I’m a man of faith, but I like to remain “cautiously optimistic”

        • October 13, 2016 at 1:28 am
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          So be it…. Jedi.

    • October 13, 2016 at 6:46 am
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      Wtf did you expect her to say either way?

  • October 12, 2016 at 9:16 pm
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    Sick of hearing about the reshoots. Every movie has them. They aren’t doing this to “ruin it for the fans” or to “Disney-fy” it. It’s going to be fine.

    • October 12, 2016 at 11:12 pm
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      Been saying this from the beginning. The Star Wars stamp just made it explode.

    • October 13, 2016 at 5:26 am
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      Exactly. Besides, Lucasfilm has been pimping this thing out as a war movie non-stop both before and AFTER the reshoot rumors, so I doubt they changed the tone all that much.

  • October 12, 2016 at 10:35 pm
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    at this point i’d really like to just watch the movie and see for myself how it turned out.

    • October 13, 2016 at 5:25 am
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      Agreed. Star Wars movies have a long history of production issues, so the only way to know if the movie is good is to see it.

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