{"id":27951,"date":"2020-08-03T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=27951"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:09:33","slug":"karl-urbans-scene-in-rise-of-skywalker-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=27951","title":{"rendered":"Karl Urban&#8217;s Scene in &#8220;The Rise of Skywalker&#8221; Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/karl-urban.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/karl-urban.jpg 700w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/karl-urban-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Star Wars<\/strong><em> <\/em>franchise has grown into a huge aspect of our society, so it bears no surprise that plenty of celebrities have a desire to be a part of the series. With previous films containing secret appearances from <strong>Daniel Craig<\/strong> and <strong>Bill Hader<\/strong>, it&#8217;s no surprise that the most recent film has a cameo of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em><strong>The Rise of Skywalker<\/strong><\/em>, a stormtrooper is heard uttering the words &#8220;Knights of Ren&#8221; as <strong>Kylo Ren<\/strong> moves past him. This particular soldier is played by none other than <em><strong>The Boys <\/strong><\/em>star <strong>Karl Urban<\/strong> in a scene that was apparently shot on a whim during a visit with director <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> on the set of Episode IX. Urban has said that he has always wanted to play one of the iconic henchmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been one of my life-long goals to be a stormtrooper, so I can tick that off now,&#8221; said Urban in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a33444596\/karl-urban-star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-cameo\/\">Digital Spy<\/a> while promoting the new season of Amazon&#8217;s <em>The Boys.<\/em> With his appearance in the film, Urban joins <strong>George Takei <\/strong>and <strong>Brent Spiner <\/strong>in the group of actors who have been in both <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> and Star Wars<em> <\/em>projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nKarl Urban explains his cameo in the latest Star Wars film.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=27951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Karl Urban&#8217;s Scene in &#8220;The Rise of Skywalker&#8221; Revealed&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":27962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[3162,1400,642,1340,3585,1165],"class_list":["post-27951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","category-movies","tag-karl-urban","tag-kylo-ren","tag-star-wars","tag-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker","tag-stormtrooper","tag-the-rise-of-skywalker","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karl Urban&#039;s Scene in &quot;The Rise of Skywalker&quot; Revealed - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=27951\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karl Urban&#039;s Scene in &quot;The Rise of Skywalker&quot; Revealed - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karl Urban explains his cameo in the latest Star Wars film. 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