There's always a silver lining when you're JJ Abrams.

Even when his Star Wars: The Force Awakens star broke his leg mid-way through production, the director eventually found a way to turn it around and make it work to his advantage.

He revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he and writer Lawrence Kasdan used the additional time to get together and rewrite various upcoming scenes, which he says worked out for the better.

"It was obviously a horrible experience that I wish had never happened for obvious reasons," Abrams told the publication this week.

"But the truth is, once we knew that Harrison was going to be okay, we all realized this was this greatest gift to the movie, and I would think that any filmmaker would say, 'If I could get a break after a month of shooting, for a few weeks, to recalibrate, I would take it'."

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Watch a trailer for the next movie in the franchise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, below:

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