Skeleton Crew isn’t a present that seemingly set as much as reply the grand mysteries of the Star Wars galaxy—it’s an journey present about youngsters getting misplaced in area, not our main perception into what’s subsequent for the galaxy at giant, or what’s up with the movers and shakers of intergalactic battle. But that doesn’t imply the present doesn’t have thriller, and it actually has a number of it within the form of 1 determine particularly: Jude Law’s peculiar character, Jod Na Nawood.
Na Nawood, Star Wars-as-hell title apart, has been a continuing enigma within the run as much as the collection—is he actually a Jedi in hiding? What attracts him to serving to the children discover their method dwelling within the first place?—however for all the main target as Skeleton Crew‘s main grownup protagonist, we nonetheless don’t know all that a lot about his deal… however at a current press junket, Law was keen to start out peeling again the various layers of Jod Na Nawood to io9.
“There’s a kind of elevated life pressure in Star Wars, the place individuals are actually coping with the large battle of fine and evil over who’s principally operating the galaxy. And then simply as in life on Earth, there are the folks which might be simply surviving,” Law instructed io9 of Jod’s place within the universe coming into the collection. “If you consider the kind of extremes of rebellions and revolutions and battles… a number of the galaxy is at struggle. And while you’re at struggle, folks actually are having to kind of survive on crumbs—and in there lies some nice story, nice texture. How are you concerned? Are you not concerned? Are you simply surviving day after day?”
“What’s attention-grabbing to me about Jod is he’s clearly in that mire, surviving, searching for himself, and possibly has been for the nice a part of his life, most of it even,” Law continued. But why is Jod staying on the fringes? “You know, as we’ve hinted at already, he’s Force delicate. So how that comes into his life, and why, and whether or not he makes use of it, and whether or not we’re going to disclose extra, is all a part of the thriller. But I believe this provides a really attention-grabbing texture to him.”
One attention-grabbing a part of what makes Jod such a wild card for Skeleton crew does come into play together with his title. It is, in line with Law no less than, simply one identification the person has had over his life. “I need to discover out which one among them got here up with the title,” Law stated of Jod’s identification, in reference to Skeleton Crew‘s creators, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford. “One of Jod’s different names is definitely taken from a very outdated early Star Wars comedian guide. I received’t inform you which one! But yeah, it’s a reference to a personality in a really early comedian.”
“We do be taught that Jod has been referred to as by a number of names [within the first few episodes],” Watts teased to io9. “I like to consider his character having the identical dialog [about his name], determining like, is that really his precise title? Or did he make up a Star Wars title too? He thought that ‘Na Nawood’ would sound extra Jedi-like.”
“Some of the names once we have been growing them, we might port by way of completely different languages and discover… you’ll find yourself sort of altering it and warping it,” Ford added. “I believe that’s how [Dave Filoni] got here up with Ahsoka, that it was from possibly like, a Sanskrit title or one thing. So really ‘Na Nawood,’ possibly somebody will determine, does have a special language origin and means one thing.”
It received’t be for much longer earlier than we get to start out unfurling the thriller ourself—Star Wars: Skeleton Crew begins streaming tonight, December 2, on Disney+.
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