Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens for ios download

The character was first heard in the official TV spot for The Force Awakens, released in November 2015. Nyong'o was revealed to be playing a performance capture-CGI character, pirate Maz Kanata, in a May 2015 Vanity Fair photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz. Nyong'o's meeting with Abrams about an undisclosed role was reported in March 2014, and her casting in the film was first announced on April 29, 2014. įor The Rise of Skywalker, Maz was created using animatronic puppetry. While we experimented with many looks and styles before settling on the character's final design, Rose was always at the center of the inspiration for Maz. I mentioned Rose in an early story meeting as a sort of timeless, wise figure that I'd actually known in my life. We really wanted the story to feel authentic, despite being a wild fantasy. Her eyes are an important aspect of her character, and you'll see how it plays out.' Abrams told his home town newspaper, the Palisadian-Post, that he based Maz on his late Palisades Charter High School English teacher Rose Gilbert. I had this pitch about these goggles that she wore. Ībrams said, 'I had some specific ideas about how she would work and what she would do. She was there on set, and we did capture sessions afterwards as well.

And given her mobility, and given the role that she played, it became clear that that was one creature where we should use the tool of CG. Maz needed to look and feel and be just like one of those creatures. Abrams told Entertainment Weekly in November 2015, 'I wanted to do as a puppet originally, but once we figured out the things that she was required to do, it felt like performance capture was the way to go.' With most of the other creatures in her scenes being practical effects, Abrams noted: For her performance in The Force Awakens, Nyong'o was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.Ĭharacter Concept and creation While Maz's small role in the trilogy has been criticized, Nyong'o's performance and the technical aspects of the character have been praised by critics.

Maz, a former pirate and smuggler, is more than 1,000 years old and manages an interstellar tavern in a castle on the fictional planet Takodana. Introduced in the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, she is a computer-generated character voiced and performed through motion capture by Lupita Nyong'o. Maz Kanata is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens for ios download