{"id":617179,"date":"2026-04-20T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/617179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:41:07","slug":"star-wars-actor-reveals-how-he-felt-saying-meme-somehow-palpatine-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/617179\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Actor Reveals How He Felt Saying Meme: Somehow Palpatine Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that part of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker<\/a>\u00a0when a tired-sounding Poe Dameron tells everyone that \u201cSomehow, Palpatine<\/a> has returned.\u201d It\u2019s gone on to become a popular meme, which the actor who said it, Oscar Isaac, didn\u2019t anticipate. He also seemed to suggest that, yeah, he thought it was terrible, too.<\/p>\n

Released in 2019, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the third film in the sequel trilogy and the last main entry (for now\u2026) in the saga. It isn\u2019t a great movie. One of its biggest problems is that it brings back Emperor Palpatine, via a plot point that played out in Fortnite<\/a> (really<\/a>), and has Isaac\u2019s Poe Dameron announce this news to everyone with that now infamously bad line. According to the actor, that bit of dialogue was added at the last minute during a messy production to help tie the film\u2019s story together.<\/p>\n

When asked about the line during a recent episode of Josh Horowitz\u2019s podcast, Isaac explained that the \u201cSomehow\u201d line was added during a last-minute round of Rise of Skywalker reshoots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose were reshoots,\u201d said Isaac. \u201cWe had to do reshoots. Yeah, because when I look at it, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, that wig\u2019s pretty good.\u2019 Y\u2019know, I think I\u2019d cut my hair already.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isaac further explained that lines and reshoots like that are \u201csurgical strikes\u201d where a director and everyone involved come in and try to \u201cget everything\u201d to come together and work. And on the set of Rise of Skywalker, Isaac says there was a lot of \u201cmovement and flux throughout that whole thing.\u201d Still, he didn\u2019t expect the line to become infamous.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut had you asked me if, at the moment, I thought that [line] was going to be [a meme], I wouldn\u2019t have known,\u201d said Isaac.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cHey, man, I committed to the exasperation, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d before laughing. So yeah, it seems clear that while he didn\u2019t know at the time the line would become a meme, he did realize how silly and bad it was to shove it into the movie like this. Even Isaac was fed up with Rise of Skywalker at that point.<\/p>\n

Oh, and if you were wondering if the Poe Dameron actor had any involvement in the now-canceled Kylo Ren film from Steven Soderbergh<\/a>, he says he never got to see the script, as he wasn\u2019t involved. But when asked to share his thoughts on a Soderbergh-directed Star Wars movie, Isaac replied:\u00a0 \u201cThat would have been amazing, sure. Would have been incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember that part of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker\u00a0when a tired-sounding Poe Dameron tells everyone that \u201cSomehow,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,231920,75,50265,231921,21883],"class_list":["post-617179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-emperor-palpatine","tag-entertainment","tag-oscar-isaac","tag-rise-of-skywalker","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}