


Andy Serkis said, "It's the first time I've been on set not yet knowing what the character's gonna look like. Snoke's appearance changed throughout principal photography and post-production of The Force Awakens. Aside from the films, Snoke appears in related Star Wars media. As Palpatine's puppet ruler, Snoke manipulates Luke Skywalker's nephew, Ben Solo, into becoming Kylo Ren. The Star Wars universe establishes Snoke as a Force-sensitive artificial being who was created by Emperor Palpatine, and used by him to reclaim control of the galaxy. The character appears as a main villain in the first two films of the sequel trilogy, specifically as the main antagonist of The Force Awakens (2015) and later as the secondary antagonist of The Last Jedi (2017)-and is referenced in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). In the films, Snoke is a CGI character voiced and performed by Andy Serkis via motion capture.

Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt for the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, in which he is introduced as the Supreme Leader of the First Order, a military junta formed from the fallen Galactic Empire. Supreme Leader Snoke is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.
