While Adam Driver was hardly an unknown name in Hollywood prior to 2015 thanks to appearances in movies like Lincoln and Inside Llewyn Davis, plus his role as Adam Sackler in the TV show Girls, there’s no question that Star Wars: The Force Awakens significantly boosted his profile. As one sees when they go through the Star Wars movies in order, Driver played Kylo Ren in all three of the Sequel Trilogy’s entries, and we’re just a few years away from The Force Awakens celebrating its 10th anniversary. Yet all this time later, Driver continues to be reminded by Star Wars fans of one of Kylo’s biggest moments in that movie, with it even feeling to him sometimes like this is mentioned “every day.”
Driver stopped by Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? (which can be streamed with a Max subscription) to talk about his career with the title host ahead of the arrival of his latest cinematic endeavor, Ferrari, one of the final 2023 movie releases. On the topic of Star Wars, Wallace brought up how Kylo Ren killed Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, the character’s own father, in The Force Awakens, lead the actor to say (via CNN):
