Ever since Lupita Nyong’o first joined theStar Wars cast, we’ve known that she’s playing some sort of motion-capture character, and now, thanks to EW, we’ve finally seen her face — or rather, been told that we were looking at her all along. In the film, Nyong’o plays Maz Kanata, a small alien whose eyes have mysterious properties. That’s her next to Nyong’o in the photo below:
Yes, if that little creature looks familiar, that’s because she was on the poster THE WHOLE TIME.
Both J.J. Abrams and Nyong’o kept the details of Maz’s involvement in theForce Awakens plot to themselves, though we do know that, according to Abrams, “Her history is that she was a pirate for a long time … She’s lived over a thousand years. She’s had this watering hole for about a century, and it’s like another bar that you’d find in a corner of the Star Warsuniverse.”
Source: Vulture.com
