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"This is the thing I think Star Wars is falling short of now: there really isn’t very much to believe in anymore," actor Ahmed Best told pop culture writer Jamie Stangroom. "The lack of faith in the mythology is really the thing I find to be missing. We don’t talk about The Force anymore in the Star Wars movies."
"We’re really about lineage and legacy and line and technology," Best said. "But the thing that made Star Wars work was The Force. There were two sides: the light side, and the dark side. But we all believed in The Force -- that’s what worked in the Lucasverse when it came to Star Wars.