Imagine multi-award winning and perenially nominated actor Dev Patel being in a Star Wars film. He’d certainly be most welcome, talent like his is always desirable in the GFFA and it turns out he could have been a part of the saga a long time ago had things gone differently, as he explained in the latest issue of Total Film.
“I don’t know if you’re allowed to talk about it, because you sign an NDA. But yeah, I think everyone did. Everyone auditioned for Star Wars,” he says. “I remember, I think I was doing Marigold 2, and I sent them an iPhone video from my trailer in India. The next minute, I got a call-back, and I was there, and that was fascinating.”
Would he be interested in being part of a comic book franchise? “I mean, look, I’m not opposed to it. Those movies are a real spectacle when done right,” Patel says. “I guess if I fit in these worlds… I don’t know. The alchemy hasn’t been right for me, personally yet. These journeys with people like David [Lowery, director of The Green Knight], and stuff like that, have really been the most nourishing.”
He adds: “I don’t want to s*** on those movies, because there are some incredible performers that manage to go off and win Oscars, and then go and do a big Marvel movie. And there are films like Black Panther that culturally changed the paradigm in massive ways. I liked the first Captain America. I thought that was amazing, the action in that. And so it’s just finding the right one. It’s being invited along, and also finding the right one. The ones that I have been offered, which I can’t talk about, haven’t quite worked for me.”