{"id":2693,"date":"2017-12-24T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/12\/24\/the-last-jedi-rian-johnson-explains-why-adam-drivers-shirtless-scene-was-all-about-intimacy-between-kylo-ren-and-rey\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T18:02:10","slug":"the-last-jedi-rian-johnson-explains-why-adam-drivers-shirtless-scene-was-all-about-intimacy-between-kylo-ren-and-rey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/12\/24\/the-last-jedi-rian-johnson-explains-why-adam-drivers-shirtless-scene-was-all-about-intimacy-between-kylo-ren-and-rey\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Last Jedi\u2019: Rian Johnson Explains Why Adam Driver\u2019s Shirtless Scene Was All About \u2018Intimacy\u2019 Between Kylo Ren and Rey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/the-last-jedi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-last-jedi\">The Last Jedi<\/a>\u201d features many a surprising scene, few of them more attuned to the meme-loving segment of online fandom than one that finds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/adam-driver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-driver\">Adam Driver<\/a>\u2019s Kylo Ren without his shirt. There\u2019s no apparent reason for it beyond fan service \u2014 even his scene partner, Daisy Ridley\u2019s Rey, asks if he can cover up \u2014 but director Rian Johnson says there\u2019s more to the moment than meets the eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/12\/star-wars-supreme-leader-snoke-kylo-ren-1201910739\/\" title=\"\u2018Star Wars\u2019: Supreme Leader Snoke Had \u2018At Least One Other Apprentice\u2019 Besides Kylo Ren, Official Magazine Reveals\">\u2018Star Wars\u2019: Supreme Leader Snoke Had \u2018At Least One Other Apprentice\u2019 Besides Kylo Ren, Official Magazine Reveals<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s all about those Force connection scenes,\u201d Johnson tells <a href=\"http:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2017\/12\/23\/star-wars-the-last-jedi-adam-driver-shirtless-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People<\/a> in a new interview. \u201cThe keyword being intimacy. And the idea that this was a way to just, why not step that up? The idea that, what\u2019s even more uncomfortable having a conversation face to face with a person you don\u2019t want to, is if they\u2019re half-naked during it, while you\u2019re having to do it. And so it was just another way of kind of disrobing Kylo literally and figuratively a little bit more, and pushing that sense of these conversations becoming increasingly more intimate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/12\/ridley-scott-alien-star-wars-star-trek-1201910690\/\" title=\"Ridley Scott Doesn\u2019t See Why \u2018Alien\u2019 Can\u2019t Be as Big as \u2018Star Wars\u2019 or \u2018Star Trek\u2019\">Ridley Scott Doesn\u2019t See Why \u2018Alien\u2019 Can\u2019t Be as Big as \u2018Star Wars\u2019 or \u2018Star Trek\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s much tension between Kylo and Rey in the latest \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/star-wars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_star-wars\">Star Wars<\/a>\u201d movie, much of it implicitly sexual, as they try to turn one another toward their respective sides of the Force. Asked whether Driver was shy about the scene, Johnson says the actor &#8220;knew he looked good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Last Jedi\u201d features many a surprising scene, few of them more attuned to the meme-loving segment of online fandom than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Hr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}