One of the deepest mysteries in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is what role Lupita Nyong'o plays in the larger story. As the space pirate queen Maz Kanata, we know just bits and pieces about the character. She rules over a pirate kingdom that at some point Han, Chewbacca, and Finn travel to, and she has a large red droid working for her.
We also know, however, that she's about 1,000 years old. and perhaps that's why, during the global press day for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, moderator Mindy Kaling suddenly asked a very forthright question, seemingly out of nowhere.
"Can you talk about your character's relationship with Yoda?" she asked the actress matter-of-factly. Now, we have no way of knowing if Kaling has some sort of inside knowledge, or if something like this will be alluded to in the film, but director JJ Abrams chimed in.
"I will say this, in an attempt to save my friend Lupita from this awesomely geeky question. I do believe that Maz and Yoda at one point had crossed paths. But that is not something, of course, due to the events of past films, that happens in this one," he said.
Nyong'o, for her part, joked that "he was my first love," a story that Kaling said she'd love to see made into a movie.
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