‘The Last Jedi: Lightsaber Training’ featurette released

Disney has released a new featurette highlighting the intense training that the cast went through to master weilding their lightsabers. Watch in the player below as Daisy Ridley, Gwendoline Christie, John Boyega and Adam Driver discuss learning fight choreography for the complex sequences.

Watching this it’s clear that many of the cast performed a lot of their own fight scenes to help bring a sense of authenticity to the film.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi stars Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie and Andy Serkis, as well as Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern and Kelly Marie Tran.

The film hits cinemas December 14, 2017 in the UK and December 15 worldwide.