Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker features some of the most bombastic elements of any film in the series. But while there are plenty of space battles and chase sequences, some of the best parts of the movie are the more intimate and intense duels -- an opinion shared by some of the people who helped construct the film.

During an exclusive interview with CBR, The Rise of Skywalker Stunt Coordinator Eunice Huthart spoke about some of her favorite elements of the film and her desire to see Adam Driver get his own action movie.

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Huthart previously worked in major franchises like Maleficent and the Fantastic Beasts series. But The Rise of Skywalker was the first time Huthart traveled to a galaxy far, far away. It was an opportunity she reveled in, saying, "I never felt overwhelmed or intimidated. I was relishing the challenge. If I never ticked the box of working on a Star Wars film before I hung it all up, I'd be very disappointed. So to be given this opportunity was fantastic. I absolutely relished every single second. I didn't really want us to finish. I just wanted to carry on. It was fantastic."

One of the most impressive action sequences in the film -- and the Star Wars series as a whole -- takes place between Rey and Kylo Ren in the ruins of the second Death Star. Seeking the Sith Wayfinder that can lead the Resistance to the Sith homeworld Exegol, Rey finds herself confronted by Kylo, who destroys the Wayfinder and reveals the truth of Rey's parentage. Enraged, the two engage in a massive battle across the destroyed space station. It's a creative and compelling duel that finds the perfect balance between their respective Force abilities.

Looking back on her experience on the film, Huthart admitted that specific fight "was my favorite scene of the movie. It was my favorite scene shooting it, creating it, and then actually watching it. [Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams], the guy is just amazing. He brought me in to collaborate, and he embraced that -- which was very flattering on my behalf." The extensive duel is one of the focal points of the film, and Huthart revealed just how much work went into it. "For that scene, we did so much work. We were doing choreography on that scene for three months alone.

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"Because we wanted to continue to make it so emotional and make you really feel like you were there with [Rey and Kylo], to understand them, what they wanted, what they wanted to gain from their battle, it was all-important to us... We worked for three months with my fight choreographer, a guy called Mike Lambert -- who is absolutely fantastic -- and then we'd bring the actors in. We talked about beats and we talked about pauses and we talked about looks between the two from where the dialogue would come in. And then things would shift ever so slightly on the day, which the actors were so good at just adapting.... We hit them with cold water all day for a week, there was wind and it was just grey.... What matters was it felt so real. It was my favorite scene."

That kind of specific attention to small character detail ended up leaving an impression on Adam Driver, who plays Kylo Ren/Ben Solo. During an interview for a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film (which is available with the official home release of the movie), Driver spoke highly of how for Huthart, "character is always the starting place, never spectacle."

"For me," Huthart said, "it's very flattering that he said that. When we were first designing all the action and everything, one of my aims was, when I was kid and we all watched Star Wars, we'd all run in the streets and we'd all pick up a stick and hit each other. One of us was Darth Vader, one was Luke Skywalker, one was Han Solo. The tallest guy was always Chewbacca. What I really wanted, what I said to Adam was that I wanted kids to run out of the cinema, run to the park, pick up a stick and start copying your fight."

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Huthart put a great deal of thought into Kylo, especially in terms of how his character arc can be defined merely by his movements. "Because Kylo Ren throughout the film had so many fight scenes, he had so much to do on a fighting level in the film. And we wanted the fighting to grow. When he met the Knights of Ren we wanted to see some vulnerability. It was important that we understood the arc of the character throughout. It was really fun because it was our aim that through his actions and his fighting, that his emotion... we always understand where the character was all the time."

Echoing Driver's glowing comments about her, Huthart explained, "When actors say they want to do their own stunts -- which they all say -- some of them just aren't capable; Adam was so capable. He'd just go and move. I kept telling him, he needs to do a full action movie. He's got to do it, because he's so brilliant. And he's slightly awkward, so everything looks slightly different even though he's doing the same things that everyone else is doing. He has this nature of his body that it just looks slightly different, so it feels like you're looking at something you haven't seen before. He really should do an action film."

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 available now on Digital HD, and March 31 on Blu-ray and 4K UHD.

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