Speaking with the official site, Felicity Jones looked back at Rogue One five years after it hit cinemas and delighted fans of the saga and that golden original trilogy era, discussing her own beginning with the series as a youngster.
Jones had long been a fan of the galaxy far, far away, after being first introduced to the films at her cousins’ house as a child. “They loved everything about Star Wars and I remember them showing my brother and I the films on VHS,” she says. The five children would crowd around the TV set on the floor of the family’s sitting room, mesmerized by the glowing screen. “The opening titles and feeling the sense of anticipation, it was almost [like] virtual reality and we were entering into a whole new realm!” she says enthusiastically. To this day, she still counts the original Star Wars sequel as one of her favorites. “You can’t beat The Empire Strikes Back — just sublime!”
A love of cinema drove Jones to begin acting when she was still young, snagging her first role in a TV movie when she was around 12. About 20 years later, she was starring in a Star Wars film. The sheer scale of the Lucasfilm production dwarfed many of her earlier projects, despite an impressive career that already included a foray into the superhero genre with The Amazing Spider-Man 2. “The scale of [Rogue One] was incredible — the number of extras, the amount of crew, the size of the sets. I’d never experienced anything like it,” she says. “It was like being on another planet.”
