Deleted Scene in THE FORCE AWAKENS Featured Maz Kanata Using Her "Powers"
In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lupita Nyong'o's Maz Kanata tells Rey, "I am no Jedi, but I do know the Force." As it turns out, she seems to know the Force well enough to tap into it and put it into action!
During an interview with Collider, SFX supervisor Chris Corbould revealed that there was a scene in the film that didn't make the final cut which featured Maz using her power to stop a group of Stormtroopers from killing her in her castle. He explains:
"There was a particular part of a scene that never made it, where they go underneath the castle and they’re going into the underground passageways, and Stormtroopers are coming down the stairs and Maz uses her powers to collapse the ceiling. From my point of view, [that] worked absolutely brilliantly because you had all the main actors running up and then Maz does her bit and then the whole ceiling collapses in front of them, but that never made it. That was a shot I was quite proud of, actually, it worked really, really well."
Maybe we'll get to see this scene included in the special features of the Blu-ray/DVD. It sounds like an exciting scene that turned out well, so why did Abrams remove it? Was it for time? Did he not want to reveal that Maz had powers? Did he change his mind about Maz having powers? Who knows, but it could be a story arc for her character that we see unfold over the next two films.
My question is, if she can tap into the Force and do something like that, why doesn't she consider herself a Jedi...unless she was hiding the fact that she was? Maybe she's just Force-sensitive to the max. I'm curious to see if this is something that Lucasfilm will play with in the upcoming films.
What are your theories?