Behind the Scenes of a Star Wars Portrait Shoot for TIME Magazine

Update on 12/16/21: This video embed has been removed by its owner. You can still watch it here.

Photographer Marco Grob was recently asked by TIME magazine to do a portrait shoot with the cast of the new (and highly anticipated) Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens. The 3.5-minute video above is a behind-the-scenes look at how the shoot went down.

Grob went into the 2 weeks of shooting across 4 cities in 3 countries without any special knowledge of the new movie’s storyline.

“Sometimes it’s good not to know too much,” Grob tells TIME. “I wanted to have a feel on its own, to kind of do my own thing [instead of] being influenced by anything I would have seen.”

TIME shared some of the resulting portraits through its Instagram account.

Rey, portrayed by Daisy Ridley:

A photo posted by TIME Magazine (@time) on Dec 3, 2015 at 10:30am PST

Finn, portrayed by John Boyega:

A photo posted by TIME Magazine (@time) on Dec 3, 2015 at 1:00pm PST

Poe Dameron, portrayed by Oscar Isaac:

A photo posted by TIME Magazine (@time) on Dec 3, 2015 at 9:50am PST

Captain Phasma, portrayed by Gwendoline Christie:

A photo posted by TIME Magazine (@time) on Dec 3, 2015 at 12:00pm PST

Maz Kanata, portrayed by Lupita Nyong’o:

A photo posted by TIME Magazine (@time) on Dec 3, 2015 at 3:29pm PST

Kylo Ren, portrayed by Adam Driver:

A photo posted by TIME Magazine (@time) on Dec 3, 2015 at 4:11pm PST

You can find more portraits from the shoot on the TIME website and in this week’s edition of TIME magazine, titled “The Genius of Star Wars.”