I think we can all agree that despite its few flaws, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was one heck of a good time. The call backs to the original trilogy were fantastic, the action was enthralling and the new cast absolutely knocked it out of the park. Speaking of the new cast, perhaps the most interesting character among them was Adam Driver, who played antagonist Kylo Ren.
As the scene stealing villain, Driver provided the necessary pathos for audiences to actually care about his character. But he may have done too good of a job. There's a big difference between being the breakout star of HBO's "Girls" and being at the forefront of one of the biggest films in movie history, something Driver is learning in his post-"Force Awakens" life.
With the spotlight firmly on him as a big up-and-coming movie star, Driver talked about the pros and cons of his newfound fame and notoriety.
"I haven't really gone outside much in the past couple of months," Driver said on Stephen Colbert's "Late Show." "The kids are great. I feel like before, parents were like, 'stay away from my kids,' and now they're like 'get up there and take a picture, you'll appreciate it later.'"
Driver doesn't mind the young aged fans, but admits that it's the parents he has to watch out for.
"The parents is the scary thing," he said.
Amid Driver's meteoric rise has come the unexpected side effect of becoming a sex symbol. Several major publications have anointed him the next "hot" commodity in Hollywood, but Driver isn't so sure.
"There's so many people that would disagree with that," Driver countered. But following some goading from the audience, Colbert advised Driver to treat his rising sex symbol status like driving on ice, saying: "Turn into it," to big laughs.
Driver can most recently be seen in Jeff Nichols' sci-fi thriller "Midnight Special."
"Star Wars: Episode VIII" will hit theaters on Dec. 15, 2017.
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