With his intimidating height, distinctive features and eccentric air, 31-year-old Adam Driver seemed the weirdest choice to play the romantic foil to millennial feminism’s poster girl (Lena Dunham) in Girls. He continued in drama and romance until the seemingly perfect casting as Kylo Ren, an ally of the First Order determined to destroy the resistance and the Jedi.

By now you’ve probably seen Elliott in the trailer – with his huge, green, shaggy pelt and enormous eyes he’s more like a giant, curious terrier than the scaly, fire-breathing monster we know from pop culture.