Domhnall Gleeson Talks About THAT General Hux Speech In Star Wars (Exclusive)

One of the most talked about moments from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ was the speech given by Domhnall Gleeson’s villainous General Hux.

His boggle-eyed address to Force Order soldiers before the Starkiller weapon is unleashed had echoes of Hitler’s speeches at the Nuremberg Rallies and was one of the most powerful/bonkers scenes in the film (depending on which review you read).

Gleeson, talking to Yahoo while promoting ‘The Revenant’, told us that they shot different versions of the speech, but that ultimately, “JJ [Abrams] wanted it big”. Watch the video above.

“We didn’t even talk about how far to push it,” he told us. “We just said ‘lets try it at a couple of different levels’, and [JJ] just said ‘that’s the one I want it to be’”.

“I talked to him and Lawrence Kasdan at the beginning [and they said] ‘this is his moment in the film’ basically.

“I was a little bit nervous and when I turned up they had a lot of Stormtroopers, a couple of hundred Stormtroopers maybe. It felt like a big thing. It was nice to have a sense of the amount of people you’re supposed to be affecting with this.

“You’ve just got to go for it, its ‘Star Wars’! You want to go home thinking you gave it a shot. Because we shot different versions that were smaller, always, but that’s what JJ wanted so I’m happy they went the way they did. It’s intense, but you’re about to wipe out planets and he’s proud of it! This is a different level of coldness here that your dealing with, so I thought there’s been people like that you know so lets give it a shot.”

‘The Revenant’ is in UK cinemas now.

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