For her two appearances in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o took on the role of Maz Kanata via motion capture technology. Nyong’o ...

The "Star Wars" crew initially wanted Kanata to be a puppet, but the team later pivoted to CGI and motion capture. To breathe life into the puzzling character, Abrams and co. recruited Oscar ...

Recently, I got a chance to speak with Neal Scanlan, who was the creature shop head of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (and now Rogue One and Episode VIII). During our chat, we covered a wide range ...

Read an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt:. There’s only one rule in Maz Kanata’s castle. (Well, okay, there are dozens, even hundreds of rules. If you get up on stage ...

After all, Maz Kanata is a relatively minor (or relatively major compared to, say, a Dengar or Zuckuss) mo-cap character that got just a few scenes in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and ...

Getty Image/Disney. Recently, Lupita Nyong’o, who plays the wizened, friendly alien Maz Kanata, revealed the surprising news that she hadn’t yet gotten in the ping-pong ball suit for Star Wars ...

We've not been short of a few Star Wars: The Force Awakens fan theories since Christmas (), but this latest theory about Lupita Nyong'o's Maz Kanata has us intrigued. Officially, the ancient and ...

This comes from Christian Alzmann, a concept artist/art director at Lucasfilm who shared this very special look at what Maz Kanata could have looked like in Star Wars: The Force Awakens on his ...

Related: Star Wars villain Snoke was originally meant to be female, according to designer In Alzmann's original design, Maz also has sticky-out ears. The Maz we wound up being introduced to might ...