If you knew where to look, most of Star Wars: The Force Awakens had leaked online before its blockbuster release earlier this month. But there was less to be found about one character: 1,000-year-old space pirate Maz Kanata. If anything, there was skepticism about Maz, who was created by motion capture with Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o’s face: only one of two prominent characters in JJ Abrams’s pra
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