Jude Law Teases His Mysterious Skeleton Crew Survivor

Skeleton Crew isn’t a amusement that seemingly acceptable up to reply the expansive mysteries of the Star Wars galaxy—it’s an escapade amusement astir kids getting mislaid successful space, not our large penetration into what’s adjacent for the postulation astatine large, oregon what’s up with the movers and shakers of intergalactic conflict. But that doesn’t mean the amusement doesn’t have mystery, and it surely has a batch of it successful the signifier of 1 fig successful particular: Jude Law’s peculiar character, Jod Na Nawood.

Na Nawood, Star Wars-as-hell sanction aside, has been a changeless enigma successful the tally up to the series—is helium truly a Jedi successful hiding? What draws him to helping the kids find their mode location successful the archetypal place?—but for each the absorption arsenic Skeleton Crew‘s superior big protagonist, we inactive don’t cognize each that overmuch astir his deal… but astatine a caller property junket, Law was anxious to commencement peeling backmost the galore layers of Jod Na Nawood to io9.

“There’s a benignant of elevated beingness unit successful Star Wars, wherever radical are truly dealing with the large combat of bully and evil implicit who is fundamentally moving the galaxy. And past conscionable arsenic successful beingness connected Earth, determination are the radical that are conscionable surviving,” Law told io9 of Jod’s spot successful the beingness coming into the series. “If you deliberation of the benignant of extremes of rebellions and revolutions and battles… a batch of the postulation is astatine war. And erstwhile you’re astatine war, radical truly are having to benignant of past connected crumbs—and successful determination lies immoderate large story, large texture. How are you involved? Are you not involved? Are you conscionable surviving time to day?”

“What’s absorbing to maine astir Jod is he’s intelligibly successful that mire, surviving, looking retired for himself, and astir apt has been for the bully portion of his life, astir of it even,” Law continued. But why is Jod staying astatine the fringes? “You know, arsenic we’ve hinted astatine already, helium is Force sensitive. So however that comes into his life, and why, and whether helium uses it, and whether we’re going to uncover more, is each portion of the mystery. But I deliberation this adds a precise absorbing texture to him.”

One absorbing portion of what makes Jod specified a chaotic paper for Skeleton unit does travel into play with his name. It is, according to Law astatine least, just one individuality the antheral has had implicit his life. “I indispensable find retired which 1 of them came up with the name,” Law said of Jod’s identity, successful notation to Skeleton Crew‘s creators, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford. “One of Jod’s different names is really taken from a truly aged aboriginal Star Wars comic book. I won’t archer you which one! But yeah, it’s a notation to a quality successful a precise aboriginal comic.”

“We bash larn that Jod has been called by aggregate names [within the archetypal fewer episodes],” Watts teased to io9. “I similar to deliberation of his quality having the aforesaid speech [about his name], figuring retired like, is that really his existent name? Or did helium marque up a Star Wars sanction too? He thought that ‘Na Nawood’ would dependable much Jedi-like.”

“Some of the names erstwhile we were processing them, we would larboard done antithetic languages and find… you would extremity up benignant of changing it and warping it,” Ford added. “I deliberation that’s however [Dave Filoni] came up with Ahsoka, that it was from possibly like, a Sanskrit sanction oregon something. So really ‘Na Nawood,’ possibly idiosyncratic volition fig out, does person a antithetic connection root and means something.”

It won’t beryllium overmuch longer earlier we get to commencement unfurling the enigma ourself—Star Wars: Skeleton Crew begins streaming tonight, December 2, connected Disney+.

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