Justin Theroux had a blink and you'll miss it role as the Master Codebreaker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but originally the actor was set to have a much bigger part.
"It was one of those things. Rian [Johnson] called me a couple of years before making it, and said, 'Hey, there's this character, blah, blah, blah,'" Justin told CinemaBlend.
"And I think over the course of the making, the character became reduced, as they sort of locked in on what the overall thing was. And then he sort of called me last minute – I'd sort of forgotten about it – and said, 'Hey, it's really essentially a cameo, and sort of a punchline. Would you like to come in and play this part?'"
But even if it was just a small cameo, Justin's happy to have fulfilled a childhood dream and become part of the Star Wars universe.
"There's people who are dying to just put on a Stormtrooper outfit," he continued. "And so it was great. I got one of the sort of more, to me, memorable scenes, with the hyper whacked out casino scene.
"Just to be on that set is just... obviously I'm a huge Star Wars fan and it's a childhood dream. It was one of those, 'Come to London for a week, put on a costume, and also a crazy moustache, and do it.' So it was fun."
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