Emma Thompson has said that her agent asked if she could take part in “the last” movie – presumably 2017’s The Last Jedi, though it could also have been spin-off movie Solo. But she was told there weren’t any parts for her. Joking in a new interview with Mindy Kaling, Thompson playfully moaned the fact that she’s not in the franchise “because they don’t want me”.
She was taking part in an auto-complete interview for Wired, in which the participants respond to the most popular queries made about them on Google.
One question was “is Emma Thompson in Star Wars?”
“No! No!” she shouted. “Why do they think I’m in Star Wars? You know why – and this is true.
“My agent actually said to the last people who were making the last Star Wars, and they said, ’she’d be really interested in being in the next Star Wars’.
“I actually really like Star Wars.
“And they said, ‘no’!
“I’m not in Star Wars because they don’t want me to be in Star Wars.”
Kaling said: “You know when the young Jedi has lost the will to live and the end up in a forest somewhere and someone appears to them to teach them? You would be great at that.”
Thompson added: “Yes, or I could be Jabba the Hutt’s handmaiden. He’s fun. He would be fun to be with.
“I could squeeze those frogs for him.”
There is only one movie left in the main Skywalker saga of Star Wars – and the new names joining in this time around include Keri Russell and Richard E Grant.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is out on December 19.