Arezou Amin is a news editor and writer at Collider who focuses on Star Wars, Bridgerton, Netflix's One Piece, rom-coms, and animated movies.
The Big Picture When you think of Star Wars, what's the first thing to come to mind? Is it characters like Yoda and Darth Vader? Anakin and Obi-Wan's fateful duel on Mustafar that we can quote word for word? Rey and Kylo Ren teaming up in Snoke's throne room, thus forever altering my brain chemistry? If you're Josh Gad, then the first thing you think of is...OREO cookies.
I might not see the vision the way Gad does, but one thing the two of us have in common is a love of Star Wars villains. As his OREO collaboration announcement video proved, Gad has an affinity for the Dark side — the mystery packs of OREOs come in either Light Side blue or Dark Side red, and feature cover art from Star Wars poster artist Greg Hildebrant — so I had to know who his favorite Dark Side characters were.
Latching on to the idea of romance, of course I had to ask him about my personal favorite Star Wars romance, the one between Rey and Kylo Ren . While filming Murder on the Orient Express, Gad filmed a video with costars Daisy Ridley and Judi Dench, where Dench tried to get Star Wars spoilers out of Ridley on Gad's behalf. Since one of the questions was "What's the deal with Reylo?" I decided to ask Gad if he also ships the pair. The answer: he absolutely does.
"I can tell you that it's based on the incredible book written by Chris's brother, Tom, and his partner, Tanner , called The Chris Farley Show . I can tell you what's inspiring me and the writers and Paul, the brilliant Paul Walter Hauser, as we roll up our sleeves and start to map things out. There's a joy and a legacy that Chris's work has that is wholly unique. There are very few people that can universally make everyone laugh.
The possibilities were endless. He joked about playing Jabba's nephew Topher, or Rey's secret twin brother. He wondered if there was space for him as some sort of tutor to Grogu:
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