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Director Rian Johnson revealed that shooting the scene that inspired a ton of memes was easy to shoot.
Updated : Dec 25, 2017, 10:03 AM IST
Rian Johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has said that actor Adam Driver didn't need much convincing to appear topless in a scene in the movie.
Johnson said that the 34-year-old actor, who plays the part of Kylo Ren in the science-fiction series, is in good physical condition.
When asked about Adam being shy about stripping off in that particular scene, Rian replied, ''No, no, he's good. He's great. He knew he looked good.''
Adam was in good shape as he had been preparing for the action sequences in the movie and according to Johnson, he did not hesitate to remove his shirt.
"Adam looks so damn good because he'd been training hardcore for the past six months for those fight scenes. I'm like, 'Eh. He looks so good. We should put him up there," Johnson told People.
The particular scene found many takes and spawned a lot of memes across social media platforms
Kylo Ren really force facetiming with Rey shirtless acting like he wasn’t flexing and force sliding into her dms
— Star Wars Memes (@jedimemes) December 20, 2017
Actual photo of me seeing Kylo Ren's shirtless bod #TheLastJedi #KyloRen pic.twitter.com/Uo34fZylZu
— Jacina Serbalik (@ijacinabear) December 20, 2017
mom said its my turn to use the xbox pic.twitter.com/4vZBA2pom2
— Danni (@criswepoppedit) December 22, 2017
Shirtless Kylo Ren is built like a Mike Mignola drawing.
— Mike Norton (@themikenorton) December 24, 2017
I heard there's a shirtless Kylo Ren scene in #TheLastJedi. I guess Matt was right pic.twitter.com/jYj3SdzK32
— Katie Mullin (@katiecakes24_) December 13, 2017
i’ve been working out
— Emo Kylo Ren (@KyloR3n) December 15, 2017
kylo ren out of context pic.twitter.com/EasnMCLoLC
— Work Alcoholic Tamarindo (@MulherTamarindo) December 14, 2017
Hard to escape Star Wars today
— Jin-GleBell Myrrhanda (@Lin_Manuel) December 18, 2017
Just got this text pic.twitter.com/zWAYkE0S7E
UPDATE! Just got this. Had to reply. pic.twitter.com/ZIBwIb5rDs
— Jin-GleBell Myrrhanda (@Lin_Manuel) December 19, 2017
Johnson has recently also hit back at criticism of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, insisting it was important to take the franchise ''forward''.
"The goal is never to divide or make people upset, but I do think the conversations that are happening were going to have to happen at some point if SW is going to grow, move forward and stay vital," Johnson wrote on Twitter.
(With agencies inputs)