Amy Adams was “so nervous” on the first day of filming Star Wars: Starfighter that she “forgot how to act”.

The Arrival actress, who has “a very small part” in Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars outing, admitted on the SmartLess podcast that she struggled to cast aside her long-running love for the sci-fi franchise when she stepped onto the set for her first scene.

“I was so nervous the first day of working, like I forgot how to act. I’m sure Shawn Levy’s like, ‘Amy, are you OK?? And I’m like, ‘No, I’m just not OK!'” she recalled. “I’m on a Star Wars set and I grew up on this. I have to now get out of my like dorky fangirl place and go into professional actress (mode), and combining the two was really hard.”

Adams noted that she wasn’t sure what she could say about the top-secret film, but shared that it was “so cool” to be on those sets and visit the creature workshop and witness the film’s “great” child star, Flynn Gray.

Starfighter is the first Star Wars movie to not be a sequel, prequel, or spin-off since the 1977 original, and is set five years after the events of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. It revolves around a father-son dynamic, brought to life by Gray and Ryan Gosling.

Adams plays an undisclosed character alongside the likes of Mia Goth, Matt Smith and Aaron Pierre.

The film also marks a reunion between the actress and Levy, who previously worked together on 2009’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Levy also produced her 2016 movie Arrival.

Filming on Starfighter wrapped in December, and the movie is set to be released in cinemas in May 2027.

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