Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Andy Serkis hints at Snoke's identity
'His hatred of the Resistance is fueled by what’s happened to him personally'
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Your support makes all the difference.Star Wars fans know little about their new villain, Supreme Leader Snoke.
We've not even been introduced to him properly, with him only appearing in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a hologram dishing out orders to Kylo Ren and General Hux.
With The Last Jedi, however, we'll finally see the 9-foot-tall alien humanoid in his proper form, though don't expect to learn a huge amount of his backstory.
"We'll learn exactly as much about Snoke as we need to," director Rian Johnson previously told Entertainment Weekly. The Last Jedi will reveal more about the character and his plans, but, as the article points out, "his history will remain somewhat murky".
"Similar to Rey’s parentage, Snoke is here to serve a function in the story. And a story is not a Wikipedia page," he added. "For example, in the original trilogy, we didn’t know anything about the Emperor except what Luke knew about him, that he’s the evil guy behind Vader. Then in the prequels, you knew everything about Palpatine because his rise to power was the story."
Entertainment Weekly's new profile of that character does, however, offers some further insight: we may not know much of his own history, but we'll certainly learn what drives his sinister fury.
“The thing about Snoke is that he is extremely strong with the Force, the dark side of the Force. He’s terribly powerful, of course. But he is also a very vulnerable and wounded character,” Andy Serkis, who plays Snoke through mo-cap, stated.
“He has suffered and he has suffered injury. The way that his malevolence comes out is in reaction to that. His hatred of the Resistance is fueled by what’s happened to him personally.”
The actor's words seem to hint that Snoke's deformities, even, are directly linked to the Resistance; suggesting he may have sustained them during some far-flung battle between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. Is he some kind of ancient Sith? Or a Jedi who felt betrayed?
It seems like Snoke's importance lies less in his identity and far more in where he was, and at what time in the Galaxy's history.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi hits UK cinemas 14 December.
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