Talking with Collider about his forthcoming role on the Disney Plus Obi-Wan Kenobi series, actor O’Shea Jackson touched on his on-stage experiences and missing out on the role of Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
COLLIDER: As you may or may not know, I am a Star Wars fan. There is no way that I am not going to sit here and ask you a question about Kenobi. But I know you’ve got to be careful with your answers. I’ll just say, were you a Star Wars fan going in? Was this one of these things where they called you about Kenobi, you’re like, “Are you effing kidding me?”
O’SHEA JACKSON JR: Yeah. I was watching Star Wars before I came down here right now. I’m a real big Star Wars fan. I had auditioned for Lando for the Solo film, and when I didn’t get it, it crushed me. I was like, “You know what? I quit. I’m going back to being a writer. I’m done.” I was filming Swagger, and my agents were like, “Yo, we need you free in the next two days, noon.” I’m like, “All right.” They’re like, “Just listen. You want to take this meeting.”
COLLIDER: I wanted to know, what was your reaction working with The Volume technology? What impressed you? What was cool about it?
JACKSON JR: What’s so crazy about The Volume is, you really forget. After a while, you forget that you’re just in this studio. The scariest part about it is when they turn it off. Because you’ll be sitting somewhere, some cave in the middle or whatever, you got background on the volume working around and you get so engulfed in the scene that when they turn it off and the entire room you’re in just goes white. It’s kind of like a Matrix moment, when he visits the architect. It was a crazy experience.
It really would’ve saved a lot of people back in the day to have that type of technology. I could just imagine, filming on location in these… No disrespect, but these terrible places. So it definitely saved a lot of man hours. It’s hard to explain the feeling that it gives you walking in there. The abilities that it brings as filmmakers, it just gives us so much that normally you’d have to be playing pretend on a green screen. Or just, “Okay, this looks like this,” and getting terrible descriptions. Yeah, it’s a time-saver, it’s a lifesaver. And God, somebody, please give me more Star Wars jobs.
- Hardcover Book
- Zahn, Timothy (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 576 Pages - 11/16/2021 (Publication Date) - Random House Worlds (Publisher)
