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Oscar Isaac Teases Poe Dameron’s Role in Star Wars Episode IX


Besides Rey and Finn, Poe Dameron is another one of the lead heroes of the Resistance, and he will be making his return in Star Wars Episode IX. Oscar Isaac talks a little about Poe's role and the state of the Resistance during the start of the film.

Talking to USA Today, Isaac explains that Poe will turn out to be a leader who audiences are supposed to have mixed feelings toward. "You want to get people (to question him) as opposed to have some sort of easy answer of like, ‘Yeah, yeah, he did the right thing. He was a hero.' What's the cost of this stuff?" says Isaac about Poe.

As for the state of the Resistance, Isaac comments on how ragtag the group has become after the events of The Last Jedi, and might even give us a hint on those set photos we saw of him and John Boyega in the mountains. Isaac says that the Resistance in this film:

"… are guerrilla fighters, adhering closer to something like the Revolutionary War fighters or even the guerrillas in Cuba with Che and Fidel and all these guys living in the mountains, coming down to do some attacks, and going back and trying to hide from the 'empire' of the United States. It's that kind of ragged at this point."

Isaac also foreshadows something darker when it comes to the fate of the rebel soldiers. He continues:

"You hear about stories with (George) Washington as a general, where lots of people died based on their orders… but that is part of leadership and that push-and-pull in the fight for figuring out what's the way to move forward."

Seeing that Wars is literally in the title of the film, it's no wonder we're going to be seeing some darker moments in the franchise. Episode IX will, after all, conclude the Skywalker trilogy, and pave way to more decentralized stories in the universe, one of which is the trilogy being worked on by Rian Johnson.

If anything, I'm excited, and I can't wait to see Poe come back along with the other heroes of the Resistance.

Star Wars Episode IX is slated for a release on Dec. 20, 2019.

See Also: New Star Wars Fan Theory Tries To Explain Why Luke Became A Jaded Hermit In TLJ

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