Via Torontosun.com:

Say, Adam Driver, any bulletins from that galaxy far, far away?

Driver is the star of the new Jim Jarmusch movie, Paterson, and that’s what brought the actor to TIFF this week.

Paterson is about small town life, poetry and William Carlos Williams – among other things – and it opens in 2017.

In the meantime, we figured Driver, 32, would tell us just what Kylo Ren intends to do about his mother in the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII.

Incredibly, he declined to elaborate.

The former Marine did talk a bit about what it meant to be part of the Star Wars world, however.

As fans would expect, taking any role in that juggernaut involves a certain loss of anonymity. “And I feel actors are like spies,” Driver says. “Just to be able to observe.”

Driver’s success as an actor came fairly quickly — moving from TV’s Girls to such films as Frances Ha, Lincoln, Inside Llewyn Davis and This Is Where I Leave You. Then he was cast as Kylo Ren in last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens; the attention that brought with it made it tougher to move around unnoticed in public and put a dent in his ability to observe human behaviour.

But there are compensations:

“Like working with directors you’ve always been interested in, now you get a chance to do that. There are more things available to you. Financially, it’s way better than doing an indie movie,” Driver says, laughing, “at the same time that money isn’t any reason to take a job.

“I’d much rather do movies with great directors for nothing, but I also feel in the franchise world I lucked out. On the first one, J.J. [Abrams] was directing, and on the most recent one, Rian Johson was directing. So, the type of horror stories I’ve heard about typical Hollywood blockbuster franchises, I can’t relate to any of that, because the people in charge, the directors I’ve been lucky enough to work with at this point, have a very specific vision.”

Driver continues, “They’re all about breaking it into moments, and solving those moments, and that leads to the next moment. So even though the scale of it is bigger, it’s not really different from working on anything smaller. Other than, maybe the catering is better,” he jokes. “The amenities are better. But that doesn’t work its way into the movie. No one is going to watch Star Wars and think, ‘Oh! those guys got to stay in better trailers.’”