Adam Driver is a Force to be Reckoned With

Two years in the Marines, six years on Girls, and a film career that’s seen him work with many of the best directors... [ view in [browser](. add esquire@newsletter.esquire.com to your address book ] [Esquire]( [Sunday Reads] FOLLOW US [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( [You Tube]( [Google Plus]( [Adam Driver is a Force to be Reckoned With]( On a summery afternoon in late September, I arranged to meet Adam Driver near his home in Brooklyn Heights. He beat me to the restaurant and, for a second or two, as I stood on the sidewalk looking through the large plate-glass windows, I gawked at him unobserved. He was sitting alone in full sun at a table by the window facing out, a thirty-four-year-old guy in a plain dark T-shirt with a bright flop of black hair, a conversation-piece nose, and deep-red, complicated lips, his features scattered across a big and—perhaps because of the openness of its acreage—friendly-seeming face. Unselfconscious in this New York storefront, Driver was looking at his phone as if Disney’s marketing millions had somehow failed in their mission to transform him into one of the most recognizable faces in the world. He had, as we all know, been chosen: to play Kylo Ren in Episode VII: The Force Awakens and, on December 15, in Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, of the Star Wars franchise. Driver had landed as huge a part in a Hollywood movie as an actor could—the son of Han and Leia, the nephew of Luke, and, moreover, the grandson of Darth Vader, the most iconic bad guy in movie history—a role that would change Driver’s life and career and— [READ MORE]( [MORE FROM ESQUIRE] [Esquire]( [The Secret History of the Bomb]( Daniel Ellsberg on North Korea, Nixon, and the 'Strangelove paradox.' [Read On]( [Esquire]( [The Simpsons Has an Apu Problem. Here's How to Fix It.]( Comedian Hari Kondabolu explores the racism behind America's favorite Kwik-E-Mart clerk. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [12 Candles That Will Instantly Improve Your Home]( Host with confidence this holiday season. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [How Drinking Whisky Taught Me to Be Thankful]( Being stuck on a Scottish island without WiFi can help you realize what's important. [Read On]( [Esquire]( [The Best Documentaries of 2017 (So Far)]( These films offer viewers incisive windows into other lives and worlds, as well as complex issues both big and small. [Read On]( [Unsubscribe]( • [Privacy Policy]( [esquire.com]( ©2017 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019