**SPOILERS AHEAD**
You might have missed them on your first viewing of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” but when you go back for your second or third big screening, there are apparently over thirty cameos to keep an eye out for. However, one that didn’t make the grade was Tom Hardy, but some details have emerged out what his brief turn would’ve been.
Slashfilm have dug up the details, and Hardy filmed a scene as a stormtrooper, who discovers Finn in disguise as a First Order officer:
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A group of stormtroopers get in the elevator and our heroes are nervous they are going to get caught. One of the stormtroopers slowly turns to Finn and gives him a look. Finn turns around in his Imperial officer uniform and asks him what his problem is. The stormtrooper, played by Hardy with a southern accent, says “I know who you are… FN 2187! Damn boy, I never took you for officer material!” The tension is cut by the reveal that the two grew up together, but the troopers are somehow unaware of FN’s treason. While Finn’s act of desertion is a legend in the Resistance, maybe the First Order hid that information from their army so others might not get the same idea.
That actually sounds like a terrific moment, but one that gives Finn more backstory than we’ve known about him so far. Director and writer Rian Johnson perhaps thought this opened too big a narrative door for the character, particularly arriving near the end of the second act. Instead, it’s Captain Phasma who ultimately identifies Finn as FN 2817, leading to their eventual showdown.
Hopefully, the scene will show up in the extensive deleted scenes that Johnson has teased for the home video release of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” But for now, we’ll have to do with this Instragram photo posted by Hardy, and captured by a fan, before it was scrubbed from the internet. [via Uproxx]
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc1cm-enVUC/