Can someone explain why this scene with Luke and Leia was cut from Star Wars: The Last Jedi?

While we certainly didn’t hate Star Wars: The Last Jedi, we certainly did have issues with it (we’ll probably get into it all someday). but we liked as much as we didn’t.

However, among the issues we had with the movie, one of them was definitely the fact that while we did hear Luke ask Chewie ‘Where’s Han?’ before seeing him on the Falcon, we never got to experience his grief at loosing his friend of over 40 years… to see how he would react.

Would he express sorry? Or would he take it and keep his sorrow deep within?

Well now details have appeared online of a deleted seven from the movie that presumably took place after his ‘Where’s Han?’ line.

The scene saw Luke (above) retreat back to his hut on the island with tears streaming down his face and would then cut to Leia with tears streaming down her face too… clearly feeling Luke’s pain through the Force.

And damn! Why  didn’t this make it into the final cut?! We heard director Rian Johnston cut the scene due to pacing issues but kept in Luke milking big space cows? Or seeing the caretakers having their trolly demolished… but this? This had to go.

Honestly… sometimes you have to wonder.

Director’s cut anyone?

Luke mourning the death of Han Solo, deleted scene.

“Luke goes to his stone hut alone and sits quietly, eyes welling with tears over the old friend he will never see again.” pic.twitter.com/122L8iy9Wl

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