Diego Luna almost missed Rogue One casting phone call

Filmmaker Gareth Edwards had to wait to tell Diego Luna he had been cast in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, because the actor thought the call was from a drunk cousin.
The Elysium star was anxious to find out if he had landed the role of Rebel Alliance Captain Cassian Andor in the new Star Wars spin-off film, but he almost missed the crucial call because he didn’t recognise the U.K. number which flashed up on his cell phone in the middle of the night.
“I saw this British number calling me at 2am, and I have family in England, so I thought it was, like, a drunken cousin from a bar or something,” he tells People.com.
Diego went back to sleep, only to jump out of bed in a panic after realising how important the call might have been.
“I ran over and saw that it was Gareth Edwards wanting to give me some news!” he explains. “I just jumped around like crazy – it was quite a special day.”
The Mexican actor was so excited he completely forgot he would now have to keep his casting a secret from all of his friends and family.
“It was all happiness until he said, ‘You cannot tell anyone,'” Diego recalls.
The news was particularly tough to keep quiet because his two children, eight-year-old son Jeronimo, and six-year-old daughter Fiona, are big fans of the sci-fi franchise, which films in the U.K.
“I didn’t trust my children to keep the secret because, well, they’re kids!” he quips. “I told them we were spending the summer in England (for the shoot), but I couldn’t tell them why for quite a long time.”
Diego’s addition to the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story line-up was finally announced in May, 2015, just before he joined co-stars Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Forest Whitaker, and Ben Mendelsohn on set that summer.
The film opens in theatres next week (begs12Dec16).