Star Wars: The Force Awakens actors couldn’t take their scripts home

THE new cast members of Star Wars: The Force Awakens have revealed the lengths they went to in order to protect the top-secret script.

FOR the new members of the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, being told they had landed a role in such a massive franchise was life-changing, but keeping the news under wraps was tough.

Director J.J. Abrams and cast members John Boyega, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, and Carrie Fisher made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night and revealed what they were doing when they got the call up, and how they managed to avoid any spoilers.

Boyega, who plays Finn and had to audition nine times for the role, admitted he was nervous about losing the top secret script but wasn’t even allowed to take it home with him during the audition process. “We had to go to Pinewood [studio] and learn our lines and then go home,” he said. “I felt like I was living a double life like Batman.”

He recounted his dad’s priceless reaction upon hearing the news. “I went home and I was like, ‘Dad, I’ve just been cast in Star Wars,’ and he was like, ‘Oh my god, you’ve been cast in Star Wars? That is fantastic! I knew it! What is Star Wars?’”

Ridley, who landed the lead role of Rey, told host Jimmy Kimmel that she was watching a play in London’s West End when she got the phone call from Abrams and had to return to her seat midway through, barely able to concentrate and unable to tell her date the news.

The 23-year-old British actress admitted she’s had a whirlwind year since being cast in The Force Awakens. “Obviously I’ve never had people going, ‘can you sign a picture of me?’, so that’s to get used to. But I’m obviously just pleased to be part of the film and whatever else comes is cool.”

Adam Driver confessed he hadn’t even told his wife that he’d scored the role of villain Kylo when Ren Abrams and LucasFilm tweeted out the first cast photo last April.

“I feel like I still haven’t told anybody, I didn’t tell my wife anything and actually J.J spoiled it, he assumed that I had told her everything but I didn’t tell her.”

Driver had just finished filming season two of Girls when he received a phone call from his agent about Force Awakens, and said it was “months of meeting, weighing it, taking time considering it and then jumping on board.”

Abrams didn’t reveal much during the Kimmel interview, but he did divulge that the first spoken word in The Force Awakens is “this.”

The Force Awakens hits cinemas worldwide on December 18.

Backstage at #Kimmel NEW show tonight w/ Adam Driver @CarrieFFisher Daisy Ridley & @JohnBoyega #TheForceAwakens #ABC pic.twitter.com/iGDBJObPl4

— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) November 24, 2015