After The Force Awakens, for whatever reason, length of picture, whatever, it all got cut out. So, after waiting 30 years to reprise Ackbar I was a little disappointed with Ackbar's role in that picture. So, in The Last Jedi, I was quite looking forward to maybe them giving him something more juicy. We were only given the script on the day when we were shooting that piece of script, so each day I would come to work going, ‘Is today the day when Ackbar gets something a bit more involving?’ And I looked at my script and I went, ‘Oh, Ackbar's going out of the window. Well, that's that then!’ I
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