Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Captain Phasma was originally written as a man, and actress Gwendoline Christie had no idea.
Speaking with Vulture, Christie was surprised to hear that her role as Captain Phasma was intended to go in a very different direction. When the film was first announced, a notable image of the cast and director was released with a notable lack of females in new roles. Allegedly, around the time of the image surfacing and comments the image director J.J. Abrams and co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, who came onboard to write The Force Awakens after the original Michael Arndt script was scrapped, decided to make a major change regarding Captain Phasma.
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Speaking with Vulture, Christie was surprised to hear that her role as Captain Phasma was intended to go in a very different direction. When the film was first announced, a notable image of the cast and director was released with a notable lack of females in new roles. Allegedly, around the time of the image surfacing and comments the image director J.J. Abrams and co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, who came onboard to write The Force Awakens after the original Michael Arndt script was scrapped, decided to make a major change regarding Captain Phasma.
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