Director J.J. Abrams is almost done working on "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," and he is simply adding the finishing touches to the film.
"We were working on the final mixes at 2:30 this morning," Abrams told Variety. "I left with six very small, but important things that (still) need to be done because I said, 'I have to get to the Montclair Film Festival.'"
When a fan asked him how he felt about doing the seventh installment to the "Star Wars" series, and if he wanted the project to "just be over," Abrams suddenly became candid.
"I wish you could zip line down here and hug me," Abrams told the "Star Wars" fan. "The truth is working on this movie for nearly three years, it has been like living with the greatest roommate in history for too long. It's time for him to get his own place. It's been great and I can't tell you how much I want him to get out into the world and meet other people because we know each other really well. But really, 'Star Wars' is bigger than all of us. So I'm thrilled beyond words (to be involved) and terrified more than I can say."
Abrams has such a huge respect for the world of "Star Wars" and the impact its characters and stories have made from generation to generation.
"It is such a powerful idea. It's a religion without a god. It's a nondenominational, powerful idea that was very important to us, in this film, to bring back," he said.
"The Daily Show" host Stephen Colbert was with Abrams during the Montclair Film Festival, and Colbert actually shared a funny story about "Daredevil" star Jennifer Garner.
He revealed that Garner used to babysit for their daughter before she got an agent and moved to Los Angeles.
"(My wife and I) thought, 'Oh poor thing. She is just going to disappear.' Then a couple of years later, I'm going to work at 'The Daily Show,' and I see like an eight-story poster of her in a cat suit for 'Alias' and I nearly drove up on the sidewalk," said Colbert.
When he later showed his wife the new picture of Garner, she was incredulous as well.
"But she wasn't hot," my wife said. And I said, "Yes, she was!"
"Well, you never said anything," his wife argued.
"What am I supposed to say?" Colbert then answered back. "Have you noticed how unbelievably hot our babysitter is?!?"
