Jod Na Nawood is not a good guy after all.
The end of the finale left Jod’s fate uncertain.
Just as uncertain is the fate ofSkeleton Crewitself.
Jod (Jude Law) in the ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ finale.Credit:Justin Lubin/Lucasfilm Ltd.
Will the show get a second season on Disney+?
Is there aStar Warscrossover coming?
And what happens when those child actors hit gasp!
Jod (Jude Law) on ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’.Matt Kennedy/Lucasfilm Ltd.
So we had that waiting and you get a little bit nervous.
You’re like, “Should we have given him a redemption arc?”
But I don’t know.
Jod (Jude Law) on ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’.Matt Kennedy/Lucasfilm Ltd.
Is he good or bad?
And so our twist was this anti-twist, that he was exactly as he presented to be.
WATTS:We’ve been having to not reveal any of that for such a long time.
Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), Kb (Kyriana Kratter), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), SM-33 (Nick Frost) and Jod (Jude Law) on ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’.Courtesy of Lucasfilm
You’re the first person that we’re able to talk freely with.
He worked on the backstory so much.
No villain wakes up and thinks, “I’m the villain.”
KB (Kyriana Kratter), Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith) on ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’.Courtesy of Lucasfilm
He exists in a morally gray area.
He’s not so one-dimensional that he would just kill the kids and run away with the gold.
He’s tortured by his behavior, and I think that that’s fascinating to watch.
Vane (Marti Matulis) on ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’.Courtesy of Lucasfilm
It’s not a kid show, frankly.
It’s actually darker for this reason.
For me, it was always that we were just making the show that we wanted to watch.
Fara (Kerry Condon), (Fourth from L-R) Neel (Robert TImothy Smith and Wendle (Tunde Adebimpe) on ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’.Courtesy of Lucasfilm
We’re not kids, but I loved watching it with my kids.
That was so fun.
Would he have actually hurt any of these kids or their parents?
He doesn’t want to have to do this.
He says, “Don’t make me do this.”
And that creates a really interesting conflict inside of him.
FORD:It’s blaster acting.
How deep did you go?
FORD:In our heads, it’s like the potential to go deeper.
That part of the story is something that could be explored in the future.
The kids are like, “I don’t understand this guy.”
They’ve never been out in the galaxy and met someone as damaged as him.
So I don’t think we could have done a flashback in this season.
WATTS:Yeah, not in this season.
It’s very fun.
Just him now alone and thinking his thoughts, ruminating.
That hit me in a way that it hadn’t before.
I was trawling Reddit while you were watching with your family.
Different people were reading different things.
Some people were like, “Oh, he’s happy to finally have to drop this ruse.”
People saw every different variety.
FORD:It’s funny because what I used to see was he gets this idea at the end.
But it’s been long enough now that I could just finally watch it for what it is.
It read mournful to me.
FORD:Right, exactly.
And it’s like, “No, they just know each other really well.”
With allStar Wars, you just have one little detail and you’re just scratching the surface.
Every single one of them can have a spinoff show if they want.
WATTS:Yeah, I love that.
We loveStar Warsstories and want to see more of them.
So it felt like a nice way to fold our story into this larger idea of tales ofStar Wars.
WATTS:We haven’t gotten deep into those conversations.
But we’re excited.
We’re happy that people are finding the show as well.
So we’re excited to get back together with everyone and talk about the future soon.
Do you have season 2 outlines?
Do you have scripts ?
Or is it just all in your heads?
WATTS:We have ideas in our heads for sure.
So there’s lots of potential out there and hope everyone sees that.
Of course, one of your biggest challenges moving forward is puberty.
How does that work in terms of your timeline if some of your child actors shoot up a foot?
WATTS:We wouldn’t pretend like the kids are only six months older if we made more.
WATTS:Yeah, their secluded planet is now officially a part of the larger galaxy.
So what would be the ramifications of that?
