![]() ![]() For a generation or two of genre geeks, Von Sydow was that rare example of the serious thespian whose very presence could elevate ostensibly lightweight fantasy cinema into the most superlative of cultural touchstones, like Alec Guinness or James Earl Jones before him. Force Awakens cast member Max von Sydow, however, is playing a character whose name remains firmly under-wraps (and has yet to appear in any trailer footage). I suspect it will be for his earlier, pulpier 80s films that fans of science fiction and fantasy will best remember him. This was a rather more hard-boiled turn, as the clear-eyed, sober villain who knows he has set the controls for the heart of evil, but simply cannot bring himself to break up the dystopian clarity of a deeply dysfunctional system. A new report has revealed the name of Max Von Sydow's character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and if the information is confirmed, it will mean that the entirety of the cast has now been identified in their assigned roles. We never did find out (at least on screen) too much about the significance of the enigmatic Force acolyte in the first of Disney’s Star Wars films, but Von Sydow had enough presence in his short death scene with Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren to help jaded fans of the space opera believe in it again after the horrors of the prequel trilogy.Ī less typical Von Sydow genre performance was his fabulously evil turn as the frozen-hearted “pre-crime” police chief Lamar Burgess in Steven Spielberg’s beautifully crafted, futuristic thriller Minority Report, based on Philip K Dick’s 1956 short story about a world in which people are jailed for murders they have not yet committed. Max Von Sydow's 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Character Has Been Revealed. But it was surely turns such as these – as well as his appearance in the misfiring David Lynch space fantasy Dune – that led to him being cast as Lor San Tekka in JJ Abrams’s The Force Awakens. ![]() Von Sydow never did anything quite so brazenly burlesque as Flash Gordon in his later career. ![]() 3 He was previously involved in a Lucasfilm production when he played Sigmund Freud in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Dreamworks/Kobal/Rex/ Shutterstock Max von Sydow ( ApMarch 8, 2020) was a SwedishFrench actor who starred in Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens as Lor San Tekka. ![]()
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