“You can’t beat The Empire Strikes Back - just sublime!”Ī love of cinema drove Jones to begin acting when she was still young, snagging her first role in a TV movie when she was around 12. To this day, she still counts the original Star Wars sequel as one of her favorites. “The opening titles and feeling the sense of anticipation, it was almost virtual reality and we were entering into a whole new realm!” she says enthusiastically. The five children would crowd around the TV set on the floor of the family’s sitting room, mesmerized by the glowing screen. “They loved everything about Star Wars and I remember them showing my brother and I the films on VHS,” she says. Jones had long been a fan of the galaxy far, far away, after being first introduced to the films at her cousins’ house as a child. “I just felt instinctively that I understood Jyn and knew how I wanted to play her.” “Most of the female roles in franchises at that time were supporting roles.” But Jyn Erso was different: scrappy, tough, resilient, and undoubtedly center stage as the leader of an impressive team of rogues and rebels. “I couldn’t believe what an amazing part it was,” Jones tells now, as the film marks the five-year anniversary of its release in December of 2016. Felicity Jones was just coming off of what would become her Oscar-nominated turn as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything when she stepped into the Star Wars galaxy as the lead in the franchise’s first standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2015.
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