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Felicity Jones: 'It's hard to live a normal life when you're filming Star Wars'

‘It was a life changing experience’ - Felicity Jones on filming Rogue One

‘Can you just pretend you are in hyperspace?’ err… yeah sure!

When we woke up this morning, we had our morning planned: get up, listen to The Breakfast Show, go on with our day.

Well that's now ruined. Felicity Jones was chatting up a storm about Rogue One and now we have to clear our schedule to lie down in a darkened room and try and calm ourselves of the excitement we feel about the upcoming Star Wars movie.

THANKS GRIMMY.

Felicity, who plays Jyn Erso in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, admitted that it's pretty tough to adjust to normal life when you've been filming with intergalactic creatures all day.

She told Nick: “[It is weird going back to normality], particularly one scene where I have a little many tentacled friend. So it’s a little bizarre when you get back home and you’re buying a pint of milk and then you think ‘I’ve just been talking to a little many tentacle creature all day. This is a strange strange life.’"

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Grimmy also managed to get a few nuggets of info out of her about the new movie.

Every day you are turning up and you look up and there is a giant monkey shooting at you with a blaster

She told him: “[The filming] is all finished, and it was absolutely extraordinary. I pretty much had a life changing experience. Every day you are turning up and you look up and there is a giant monkey shooting at you with a blaster with laser fire so it’s pretty cool."

Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd

But she was super secretive when he tried to get her to spill on what the movie was all about.

"I’ve seen parts of it and it’s really cool," she said.

Rats!

Okay, so we know there is a giant monkey with a gun, a 'many tentacled' creature and it's finished filming.

Off to that dark room. Good day.

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