Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's Diego Luna isn't just on the run from Darth Vader on the big screen - he's being chased in real life too!
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Diego - who plays Rebel agent Cassian Andor in the upcoming A New Hope prequel - revealed a slightly unsettling obsession with the Sith Lord during the Star Wars livestream Q&A on Friday.
"I would always choose to be Han Solo when I was playing with my cousin," Diego admitted. "The humour and just the way he approaches every situation is spectacular.
"But if I had to choose just one [favourite] - and I think he chose me - it's Darth. It's like he appears in my nightmares. He's there - always! I don't feel that way with anyone or anything… Having accepted it, I feel much better."
The awe of actually standing in front of Darth Vader on a Star Wars set was also impressive for director Gareth Edwards - at least for a little while.
"It lasts about three hours - and then you're like, 'Darth, come on! Over there! Jesus'," he joked. "It's a very intimidating thing, I guess, and we really did our homework on Darth.
"I learned a lot about the original films, and how they handled it. For instance, the first Darth mask was sculpted out of clay and today you can do everything in a computer.
"So, we tried all the fingerprints and all the little errors in the original mask to be in our film… All of these different ingredients - like the famous sound effects, James Earl Jones, the design of everything - it's like if you take one away - even music - he's not Darth Vader. It's a team sport, being Darth Vader. It's weird."
Producer Kathleen Kennedy has previously hinted that Darth Vader will only be seen briefly in Rogue One, but his appearance is a major turning point in the movie.
"He will be in the movie sparingly," Kennedy told Entertainment Weekly. "But at a key, strategic moment, he's going to loom large."
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits UK cinemas on December 15 and arrives in the US on December 16. Watch a trailer below:
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