Quotes

I feel really honored to be playing the woman who goes on to raise Luke Skywalker! I mean seriously what a fun thing to be able to say.

I hadn't seen any of the Star Wars episodes apart from Episode I before I found out about the audition - and then I madly tried to learn about the films. I got them and watched them with my family. I loved them, maybe because of the excitement of the fact I might be involved in it. But my family loves Star Wars anyway, so I fed on their adrenaline and I love the movies now. They've got so much detail - I never realized. I'm still trying to learn all the characters." "I've always been interested in the performing arts, and I don't quite know where it came from. No one else in my family is really interested in it. I do have a fairly musical family, but I'm the one who pursued it. I started to write songs when I was 14, But I've always been singing something. It's in my blood.

"I just had to get it into my head to do the work and not look around

• because it was not an amusement park. I wasn't a visitor. I had to

pull myself together and do the work." - on working on the Episode II set.