Serkis says he imagined Snoke’s deep scars were the source of some of his anger. Serkis says he and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson also considered drawing inspiration from “so many different dictators,” but settled on the uncanny Hefner idea. For Supreme Leader Snoke, Serkis drew from “the gold-lamé Hugh Hefner look,” the shining robe evoking the Playboy magazine founder. Hugh Hefner and Snoke’s Injuries Informed How Serkis Played the CharacterĪndy Serkis rose to fame as the motion capture performer behind Gollum’s creepy mannerisms in The Lord of the Rings, quickly becoming well-known for injecting unique life and personality into monstrous characters. Snoke truly believing that he himself was really a dark Force user who had lived through the Galactic Civil War likely prevented Ben Solo/Kylo Ren from sensing the deception throughout his time as Snoke’s apprentice. Palpatine needed Snoke to believe the lies he told Kylo Ren so that he could more easily manipulate the fallen Skywalker. But his status as a Sith sleeper agent fits with Palpatine’s plan, too. In fact, despite being created some time after the Battle of Endor, he believed to have lived through the rise and fall of the Empire.Īll of this is revealed in the novelization of The Force Awakens, in a twist that might actually have been a result of The Rise of Skywalker not having been written or planned out yet. Unlike Palpatine’s strand-cast “son,” Snoke didn’t know he was created in a lab by the Sith lord nor that he was being manipulated to rebuild the Emperor’s forces. This strand-cast/cloning storyline shares several plot points with the classic Dark Empire comic series, where Palpatine bided his time until he could come back in a younger, stronger clone body and re-create the Empire. The Sith lord next turned his attention to Rey in The Rise of Skywalker. But since the process that created strand-casts could not reliably replicate Force-sensitivity, Palpatine’s “son” was not Force sensitive. There were other candidates, like the strand-cast who became Rey’s father. Snoke was likely born from these experiments but was too imperfect a vessel to house Palpatine’s spirit. Stream your Star Wars favorites right here! With his own clone body decrepit but his spirit still strong in the Force, Palpatine could possess other people but was looking for a permanent new vessel. It was one of several ways he was working behind the scenes all along to build the First Order - itself just a shell for the new Empire being built on Exegol. Palpatine’s ultimate plan was to use Snoke as his voice to whisper in Kylo Ren’s ear. In The Mandalorian, Kuill speculates that Grogu might be a strand-cast - a speculation which turned out to be wrong when Ahsoka revealed Grogu grew up in the Jedi Temple. We’ve heard the term “strand-cast” before. This bit of Star Wars jargon means Snoke isn’t an exact copy of anyone, but isn’t natural-born either.
Although Snoke was bio-engineered in a lab on Exegol, he was a strand-cast, not a clone.
Snoke Was a Strand-Cast Created by PalpatineĮmperor Palpatine created Snoke to be his proxy through which he could regain his power. His triumphs no longer truly his own, Snoke’s ultimate legacy is the rise of Kylo Ren as well as legendary motion capture actor Andy Serkis’ performance.Īs we look back at Snoke’s short tenure as the big bad of Star Wars, here are some facts you might not know about Supreme Leader Snoke: 1. And in The Rise of Skywalker, the galaxy is only big enough for one galaxy-conquering villain as Kylo Ren’s fall shows.īy the end of the trilogy, Snoke is revealed to have been a bio-engineered villain all along, Force-puppeted tool Emperor Palpatine used to regain his grip on the galaxy while hiding his weakened physical form on the Sith planet of Exegol. Despite fulfilling the role of Emperor Palpatine in The Force Awakens, he’s completely off the table by the end of The Last Jedi. Set up in the first half of the Sequel Trilogy as a powerful new Star Wars villain, Supreme Leader Snoke of the First Order turned out to be something else entirely.
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