Domhnall Gleeson says he would have loved to have delved deeper into the "bitterness" of his Star Wars villain General Hux, before Rise of Skywalker's twist ended the character's story in surprising fashion.
Hux appears in all three of the Star Wars sequel trilogy films, beginning as a downtrodden sidekick for Kylo Ren, and ending up as a secret Rebel spy. Unfortunately for Hux, his last minute change of heart ultimately spells his doom — as he is quickly discovered and killed off.
It's an abrupt reveal and an even swifter demise for one of the few characters to appear in all of the sequels, though no less messy than anything else in the disappointing Star Wars Episode 9: Rise of Skywalker. And while Hux's sideplot is hardly the most pressing storyline, even Gleeson has admitted he'd previously hoped for more.
"Speaking genuinely, it would have been nice to go into the real bitterness at the heart of him," Gleeson told Liv Marks. "In a quiet way, just to find a couple of quiet moments with him, where it's not performative, where the real danger of him comes across.
"A kicked dog will end up attacking someone," he continued, "and he is a kicked dog by the end of that sort of stuff. So I would have loved to go into that stuff but, spoiler alert, I got shot in the chest by Richard E. Grant."
As part of the same interview, Gleeson said his big speech to the First Order troops was one of his easiest scenes as he knew how to fully lean into the character at such a dramatic moment.
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