With Star Wars: The Force Awakens having become the highest-grossing movie ever in North America, and a true global juggernaut, J.J. Abrams – appearing at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today to promote his Hulu series, 11.22.63 – was asked to comment on its success.
Said Abrams, “I'm grateful to anyone who's gone to see the movie. When I hear anecdotally people have gone seven, eight times, I just want to apologize to, I'm guessing their parents. No, but honestly I'm just very grateful, and I can't believe that it's done. It was three years of very tense work by a lot of people. So I'm just so happy that all the work that everyone did -- even the people you don't see in the movie, the puppeteers who were painted out -- I watched them in 125-degree heat in Abu Dhabi bring BB-8 to life, and then we mercilessly painted them out of the movie. I'm just so glad people get to see all the work that this amazing crew and cast did. So, whatever the numbers are,…I'm honestly just so grateful that the movie's out there and has been well-received.”
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Said Abrams, “I'm grateful to anyone who's gone to see the movie. When I hear anecdotally people have gone seven, eight times, I just want to apologize to, I'm guessing their parents. No, but honestly I'm just very grateful, and I can't believe that it's done. It was three years of very tense work by a lot of people. So I'm just so happy that all the work that everyone did -- even the people you don't see in the movie, the puppeteers who were painted out -- I watched them in 125-degree heat in Abu Dhabi bring BB-8 to life, and then we mercilessly painted them out of the movie. I'm just so glad people get to see all the work that this amazing crew and cast did. So, whatever the numbers are,…I'm honestly just so grateful that the movie's out there and has been well-received.”
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