Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer is a beautiful and stunning mix of new and classic Star Wars imagery. One of the things that made us all do a double take was seeing the character of Mon Mothma make an appearance as the character who gives Jyn Erso her mission. But wait, that’s not the same actress who played the role in Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi, but rather it’s actress Genevieve O’Reilly, who’s actually playing the role for the second time.
The character of Mon Mothma is best known as the woman who gives the briefing on the Death Star attack in Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi. If you’ve been through your prequel trilogy DVDs, you also know that the character was supposed to make an appearance, playing a young senator in Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith. As Entertainment Weekly point out, Genevieve O’Reilly was the actress who played the part, though the scene was eventually cut from the final version of the film.
In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Mon Mothma was a young Senator, but now, more than 10 years after that film was released, Genevieve O’Reilly is a little older, and the perfect age to play the older Mon Mothma, just a few years before we would see her in Return of the Jedi.
Darth Vader in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Casting
It was reported last year that The Sith Lord would feature in the movie and Vader will in fact be played by Spencer Wilding, a British stunt actor who has worked on Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Who and Batman Begins.
Wilding has been running lines on set, but his voice will be replaced by James Earl Jones.
