'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Trailer & Cast News: Adam Driver Talks About 'Episode 7' Shooting

LucasFilm has a knack for feeding fans a little at a time about the upcoming "Star Wars" film. This week, the company released a new photo from "The Force Awakens" villain, Kylo Ren, played by "Girls" actor Adam Driver.

The photo's caption read, "Together we will destroy the Resistance and the last Jedi." Check it out here. They don't show Driver's face but still exudes a lot of darkness regarding the film.

"He is a character who came to the name Kylo Ren when he joined a group called the Knights of Ren," Director JJ Abrams shared a bit about the character said in an interview. 

"The movie explains the origins of the mask and where it's from, but the design was meant to be a nod to the Vader mask. [Kylo Ren] is well aware of what's come before, and that's very much a part of the story of the film," he further explained.

Driver spoke with Esquire magazine about his role in the epic franchise, sharing that it was an "organic process".

"The experience was not unlike an indie movie, just with bigger budgets. With [director] J.J. [Abrams], it's all about character and story, not special effects. And we still talk about character now," he added.

"Whenever I've worked with great directors, it's always that way. You're constantly finding it. Things evolve and change even as you're filming."

Driver himself is a fan of the original George Lucas trilogy, noting that his favorite thing about the sci-fi series are their "universal themes". He shared to Entertainment Weekly last year, "I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in 'A New Hope,' and there are the two suns setting, and it's just such a quiet moment."

"It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger."

The actor explained further, "When you break all of those things down, really it's just because someone wasn't loved enough or felt betrayed. That's what makes those movies so universal. I think they can get in your mind in big and sweeping ways. It's space, it's a long time ago in a galaxy far away."

"That's set up immediately. But in the midst of all those things, what has made those movies last so long is that they're all grounded, which is something that is not so far off from every movie with huge universal themes of siblings and parents and betrayal and trust. That's so generic and obvious, but it's hard to balance those things," he also said.