Another New STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Cast Member Revealed

Although production has officially ceased on J.J. Abrams' Star Wars movie, we have word of a very interesting new cast addition: Spirit Warriors' Jessica Henwick, who'll also play Nymeria Sand in Game Of Thrones season 5.

By MarkCassidy - Nov 26, 2014 07:11 AM EST

Filed Under: Star Wars

Jessica Henwick To Appear In Star Wars VII

Star Wars: The Force Awakens may have wrapped, but BBC journalist Lizo Mzimba has outed another cast member in a recent Tweet.

Pleased @JHenwick's in @StarWars VII. Big fan, from Spirit Warriors to Silk. And she's Nymeria Sand in @GameOfThrones next year!
— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) November 26, 2014

Jessica Henwick, 22, is a British actress of Singaporean descent who played the lead role in the BBC TV series Spirit Warriors. She's also appeared in the likes of Obsession: Dark Desires, Silk, and will play one of the "Sand Snakes", Nymeria, in next year's fifth season of Game Of Thrones. Though we don't have any details on who she might be playing in The Force Awakens, there's a good chance it'll be a physical role as Henwick is proficient in Chinese martial art, Wushu. Sounds perfect for some lightsaber-based acrobatics to me, but that remains to me seen of course. Star Wars: The Force Awakens stars John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong'o, Gwendoline Christie, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker. The movie opens worldwide on December 18, 2015.

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23 Comments

MrCBM56 - 11/26/2014, 7:47 AM

I'm happy GoT stars have been placed in such huge movies lately.

MrCBM56 - 11/26/2014, 7:47 AM

I'm staring my marathon to get ready for season 5.

MarkyMarkRises - 11/26/2014, 7:49 AM

I like the variation in the cast; will most certainly prove to be a good change of cinematic pace for movies as a whole

YeezusWept - 11/26/2014, 7:51 AM

Remember when SJWs were crying about this movie lacking diversity?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

MarkyMarkRises - 11/26/2014, 7:56 AM

@StarYeezus

A SJW would find any reason to get pissed off

But lol, i'm speaking strictly in terms of creativity. Movies are so.....formulaic nowadays, and it'd be nice to see something different

SuperCat - 11/26/2014, 8:25 AM

McGee - 11/26/2014, 8:26 AM

Dead Ewok goes for 50 bucks on eBay. Very rare. One day I'll add it to my collection. Right now I'm trying to get another rare figure.

MrShmelvis - 11/26/2014, 8:43 AM

She will probably only have a small part in the movie but seeing how this is star wars there will be toys made of her character for the next 30 years.

MrShmelvis - 11/26/2014, 8:44 AM

I'm not complaining or anything, but it's true.

VictorDomashev - 11/26/2014, 9:13 AM

Enough is enough. I've had it with these mother[frick]in' GoT actors in these mother[frick]in' comic book movies.

UltimateCookie - 11/26/2014, 10:30 AM

I'll be upset if there's no Mara Jade Skywalker in this trilogy but that character would be too old by now in this timeline now that I think about it.

Danbojohnj - 11/26/2014, 11:47 AM

I hope every SWGeek phones this for us poor bastards in the outer rim who don't live in America

cbmlurker - 11/26/2014, 5:55 PM

The trailer leaked

http://youtu.be/plwVRYEQG_I

JAC - 11/26/2014, 10:13 PM

@cbmlurker Nope. I heard several pieces of dialogue from separate films, though I can't recall which. A very professional fake though.

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