Kevin Smith got his ‘Star Wars’ role mixed up

Not too long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Kevin Smith had no idea who he played in a Star Wars film.

The writer-director looked back on voicing a stormtrooper in 2015’s The Force Awakens in a recent career retrospective with Entertainment Weekly, sharing that there was an initial mix-up over which antagonistic First Order personnel he actually played.

“J.J. was kind enough to let me do a voice for a stormtrooper,” Smith said of the film’s director, J.J. Abrams. “And he had a bunch of lines written, so he was like, ‘I don’t know which one you’re gonna be. Just say all 10 of these.'”

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When he went to see the movie, Smith got a little mixed up about which part he played. “I don’t know who it is that I am. I think I’m the guy that’s like, ‘Traitor!’ Like the big one. The main stormtrooper with a line that’s, ‘Traitor!'” Smith recalled, referencing the stormtrooper who shouts at John Boyega’s Finn, a reformed stormtrooper who joins the Resistance.

“So for the first week The Force Awakens was out, I was telling everybody, ‘I’m traitor, bitch!’ and they’re like, ‘Are you kidding me!'” Smith said, quipping, “Then J.J. emailed me and said stop saying you’re traitor, you’re not traitor.”

Welp.

Following the release of the film, supervising sound editor Matthew Wood walked fans through all of the voices in a guest blog post for the Star Wars website, clarifying that it was David Acord who yelps out the word “traitor!” But Smith wasn’t too far off in his assessment. His voice appears in the same scene, which sees the attack of Maz Kanata’s castle. Reacting to incoming Resistance fighters, Smith yelps: “We have incoming at 28.6! Move!”

Smith’s breakout indie comedy Clerks, cult classics like Mallrats and Dogma, and stoner comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back are among the titles he revisits in EW’s retrospective, which feature personal memories and behind-the-scenes stories.

The director’s latest flick, The 4:30 Movie, is in theaters now, and billed as a love letter to the movies. Set in 1986, the coming-of-age comedy follows three teenage friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at their local theater. When one of the boys invites their crush, hilarity breaks loose. Ken Jeong, Justin Long, and Adam Pally also star.

Watch Smith recount memories from the First Order above.