WARNING: The following article contains minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, in theaters now.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker certainly had its hands full. Not only did the film wrap up the nine-chapter Skywalker Saga but it also wrapped up the individual arcs of characters both old and new. However, it turns out two of those characters -- Domhall Gleeson's General Hux and Richard E. Grant's General Pryde -- were cut from the film's opening sequence.
"The one time you weren't in the studio got cut," Gleeson recalled to Grant in an interview with Kinowetter. "Yes," Grant said. "One time we were in a battle scene, in a forest, with Kylo Ren -- our bits got cut out, so we have to wait for those on the extras."
While neither actor specifies that the scene in question was the film's opening sequence, it's easy to piece it together from context, as The Rise of Skywalker begins with Kylo Ren massacring natives in the forest on Mustafar while searching for the Wayfinder. Instead of being accompanied by Hux and Pryde, though, he's assisted by a small unit of First Order Stormtroopers, with Kylo being the only survivor.
Directed and co-written by J.J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker stars Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, Billie Lourd, Keri Russell, Anthony Daniels, Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams, and Carrie Fisher, with Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant. The film is now in theaters.