--- title: Star Wars Actors React to the Trailer for 'Force Awakens' description: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega react to Star Wars Force Awakens trailer canonical: https://time.com/4079627/star-wars-actors-react-force-awakens-trailer/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-20T15:36:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:10.641Z og:title: This is How 'Star Wars' Actors Reacted to the New 'Force Awakens' Trailer og:description: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega react to Star Wars Force Awakens trailer og:url: https://time.com/4079627/star-wars-actors-react-force-awakens-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22fc3b47b464537/698868f5f887dc24b7e92ebd/screen-shot-2015-10-19-at-10-35-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Star Wars Trailer og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This is How 'Star Wars' Actors Reacted to the New 'Force Awakens' Trailer twitter:description: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega react to Star Wars Force Awakens trailer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22fc3b47b464537/698868f5f887dc24b7e92ebd/screen-shot-2015-10-19-at-10-35-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This is How _Star Wars_ Actors Reacted to the New _Force Awakens_ Trailer  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 20, 2015 3:36 PM UTC  Star Wars Trailer Star Wars TrailerStar Wars  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 20, 2015 3:36 PM UTC When the trailer for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ debuted Monday night, some of the film’s actors posted their reactions to the new clip from the movie, which comes out in theaters Dec. 18. Daisy Ridley (who plays Rey) just shrieked in bed: John Boyega (Finn) nods with approval, as though he was trying to contain his excitement. Then he just loses it and starts jumping up and down. As he writes in the caption of the Instagram video, “THE TRAILER IS JUST EEEEPPPPPPPIIIIICCCCCCC! Star Wars is back! gaaaaaad laaaaard!” That pretty much sums up how every other _Star Wars_ fan was feeling at that moment. **Read next:** * [Watch the New Trailer for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_](http://time.com/4078795/star-wars-7-trailer-watch-force-awakens/) * [Epic New Poster for _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ Unveiled](http://time.com/4077562/star-wars-force-awakens-poster/) * [The Most Shocking Revelation in the New _Star Wars_ Trailer](http://time.com/4079195/star-wars-trailer-revelation/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4079627/star-wars-actors-react-force-awakens-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4079627/star-wars-actors-react-force-awakens-trailer/"},"headline":"This is How Star Wars Actors Reacted to the New Force Awakens Trailer","datePublished":"2015-10-20T15:36:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:10.641Z","description":"The force is with them alright","url":"https://time.com/4079627/star-wars-actors-react-force-awakens-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22fc3b47b464537/698868f5f887dc24b7e92ebd/screen-shot-2015-10-19-at-10-35-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22fc3b47b464537/698868f5f887dc24b7e92ebd/screen-shot-2015-10-19-at-10-35-43-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Star Wars Trailer","caption":"Star Wars Trailer","creditText":"Star Wars","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4079627/star-wars-actors-react-force-awakens-trailer/","name":"This is How Star Wars Actors Reacted to the New Force Awakens Trailer"}}]}] ```