Via Ew.com:

The dark and the light side of The Force were united at a secret location on Sunday afternoon for a press conference to discuss the long-awaited debut of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 12 days. (Given the extreme anticipation, the event was kept hush-hush to avoid any gate-crashing.)

The entire cast was set to participate, with Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, and more appearing alongside director and co-writer J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. One person was conspicuously absent from the list: Mark Hamill.

“Where’s Luke?” could have been the very first question.

Here’s the rundown of the live press conference. (Times are all Pacific.)

2:23 – Mindy Kaling is the surprise moderator for the event! Abrams, Ridley, Fisher, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong’o, and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan are the first batch to appear.

“Aren’t you rich? Why did you want to do these movies?” is Kaling’s first question.

“Do you want to borrow money,” Fisher says.

“It was nothing that any one of us took on because it was a gig that was available. It was something they felt like true passion, And each person brought much more than was expected,” Abrams says.

“Who was the most difficult actor to work with?” Kaling asks.

“It was definitely nobody on this couch,” Abrams says. “Oscar Isaac!”

2:28 – Kaling notes that Fisher is known for her sense of humor, and asks if Princess Leia has one, too. “She would have to,” Fisher said. “Wearing those hairstyles? I do now have a baboon-ass hairstyle … I mean that with love. So you need a sense of humor for that sort of thing.”

2:30 – For Adam Driver, Kaling jokes that the villain Kylo Ren looks “hilarious.” “He’s a great cook. He’s a Scorpio,” Driver deadpanned, before turning serious. “He’s very unpolished and unfinished… [The movie] adds a recklessness and something un-neat about it that people don’t normally associate – with the Dark Side being very organized.”

Kasdan says there’s never been a character like Ren in the saga. “He doesn’t have his shit all together,” the screenwriter says. “You’re getting all the contradictions and conflicts that people feel. That’s what’s unique about what Adam has done.”

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