Rian Johnson‍ Figured Out Daniel Craig’s ‘Star Wars’ Cameo Early on

We⁤ know Rian Johnson has a keen eye for ⁢ Star Wars (and wanting to get back to it, the long, long way round), and we certainly know he has a keen eye for murder mysteries with all his work on the ‍ Knives Out movies. But he is also apparently good⁤ at blending those skills for a secret ‍third talent: being able to figure out someone special is hidden under layers of Stormtrooper armor… especially when it came to ⁢his future knives ‍Out star.

At this point we all know that Daniel Craig had a special cameo⁢ in the first entry of the Star Wars sequel trilogy,playing the First Order Stormtrooper ‍that Rey ⁣manages to successfully use a Jedi mind trick on to free herself from Kylo Ren’s captivity. But in a recent Q&A session for the latest Knives Out ⁤ movie, Wake Up Dead Man (alongside Craig himself and moderated by Force Awakens and Rise of ⁣Skywalker director JJ Abrams), ⁢Johnson ⁣shared how he managed to⁢ figure it out early… well, mostly.

“When I was writing episode eight, we were watching dailies, because [Abrams was] shooting seven,” Johnson said. “One day… it was ‍a scene with Daisy [Ridley] where she does the Force mind control⁢ on a Stormtrooper and gets him to unlock her things. The daily⁣ came up, the