Skeleton Crew is giving off a lot of 80s adventure movie vibes, and Jude Law is cast as the adult among a cast of lost children. What’s funny is that, Law’s character Jod Na Nawood/Jack Silvo kind of hates children, and it’s all part of his backstory.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Law reveals, “I would say is that [Jack’s] not someone who’s had a childhood. He’s someone who’s kind of had his childhood snatched away from him, and it’s why he looks at the kids sort of with disdain. They’re just small adults. Why don’t they understand they’ve got to get on and survive? And why are they so inexperienced? He has no real concept of innocence.”
Though it’s pretty clear that Jack is a pirate, there is still a lot of mystery surrounding him—specifically if he has any Force-sensitive powers. Law doesn’t outright say whether Jack can control the Force, but he does hint that his backstory is going to be explored near the end of the series. He continues:
“That doesn’t really come out until right near the end when you really get an insight into his backstory and why he may be a Force user and is Force-sensitive. And it was a detail that was always there, but [creators Jon Watts and Christopher Ford) and I really went back and made sure we were all on the same page as to where he was born and what happened.”
There’s a ton of speculation going around about Jack as a character, but at this point, the twist could be that he was Force-sensitive after all, but he wasn’t a Jedi. My personal guess is that he was a padawan during the Purge that managed to escape by becoming a pirate; but that’s already a story that’s pretty close to Fallen Order. Then again, Cal Kestis’ direction went a completely different way. I’m all up for Jude Law, space pirate Jedi.
Catch new episodes of Skeleton Crew every Tuesday on Disney+.
