Rogue One may have been released over three weeks ago but undiscovered details are surfacing all the time, and the latest concerns the X-Wing pilot characters briefly seen in the film’s climactic scenes.
British actors Geraldine James (short-lived Channel 4 drama Utopia) and Simon Farnaby (Yonderland) appeared as the brave Blue Squadron fighters who battled in the Scariff scenes and, while their names weren’t revealed in the film, an interesting tidbit can be discovered about them in the film’s official tie-in book Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide.
Radio Times noted that their names are strikingly similar to those belonging to the actors who play them.
It doesn’t end there; Ariyon Bakare, star of BBC series Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, is named Barion Raner.