Logan Lucky’s Adam Driver

BY: Zak Wojnar

The latest film from Ocean’s 11 director Steven Soderbergh is Logan Lucky, which plays like a southern-fried version of that more glamorous, Las Vegas-set heist comedy. Like most character-driven action/comedies, its greatest strength lies with its variety of on-screen talent. Boasting names like Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Katie Holmes, and Seth MacFarlane, Logan Lucky is certainly no slouch in the casting department. One of its brightest stars is Adam Driver, playing a one-armed southerner who plots a bold robbery during a NASCAR race.

Before Logan Lucky, Driver’s star-making role was as the villainous Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the long-awaited revival of George Lucas‘s venerated space opera epic. The sci-fantasy sequel quickly became one of the most successful films ever made, to the tune of over two billion dollars worldwide.

Driver was a wildcard leading into the film’s release. His best known work before Star Wars was in the HBO comedy/drama, Girls, which excelled in pushing boundaries with its provocative sexuality and other situations mined from the depths of Lena Dunham‘s perversely interesting mind. But could the skinny dorky kid from that HBO show carry forward the torch held by Darth Vader, the single most iconic motion picture villain of all time?

To the surprise of many, Adam Driver won over audiences all around the world with his game-changing performance in The Force Awakens, and quickly emerged as a divisive topic of watercooler conversation. Did the murder of his own father, Han Solo, solidify his allegiance to Supreme Leader Snoke and the Dark Side of the Force? Or was that heinous act of patricide the push which will slowly but surely bring him back to the Light, where he can atone for his actions and abandon evil forever?

Maybe we’ll find out when Driver (and his beautiful hair) returns in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which hits theaters on December 15. In the meantime, Logan Lucky is currently playing in theaters nationwide.