'Somehow Palpatine Returned' — Star Wars Actor Oscar Isaac Says His Much-Memed Rise of Skywalker Line Was Added in Reshoots Amid 'A Lot of Movement and Flux'

Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac has admitted that his much-memed "Somehow, Palpatine returned" line was the result of last-minute reshoots for Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker. The Star Wars franchise is full of clunky dialogue, but there's perhaps no line that better sums up how hastily-written Episode 9 feels than Poe Dameron's three-word plot summary. How is the saga's greatest villain back from the dead after 30 years and two other movies where no one gives him a mention? Never mind — there's a galaxy to save! Fans have ridiculed the line being essentially all waiting rebels need to hear about the situation (and all audiences need to be sold that this is at all believable) before the heroes gather a fleet of thousands of ships, travel the impassable route to Exogol, and happily save the day. Isaac's rather disgruntled delivery of the dialogue has only aided it in becoming a meme, and something that has been widely-shared among Star Wars fans (a five-second YouTube clip has millions of views, with countless disparaging comments underneath). Now, Isaac has addressed the dialogue's meme-level status, and revealed it was a late addition. "Those were reshoots, we had to do reshoots," Is