As Resistance fighter Poe Dameron, Oscar Isaac had the unenviable job of delivering the line “Somehow, Palpatine returned” in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—a desperate handwave so J.J. Abrams’ sequel trilogy-capper could have a familiar villain quickly added to the story. In the years since the movie’s release, it’s become shorthand for lazy plot contrivances, memed and mocked into oblivion. The fact that it followed an opening crawl that referenced a Fortnite event made it even worse.In a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Isaac reflected on delivering the line and revealed that it was written later, during the film’s reshoots.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});“We had to do reshoots… those were like those surgical strikes where you come in and [everyone] is scrambling trying to get going… I think that had been a new addition at the end,” he said. “There was a lot of movement and flux throughout that whole thing.”Isaac said he had no idea that “Somehow, Palpatine returned” would have the cultural impact it did, adding, “Had you asked me if at that moment I thought that was going to be the line, I wouldn’t have known. But hey man, I committed to the exasperation, that’s for sure.”He’s clearly a good sport about it, but it can’t be much fun to know that you’ve become the face of not just modern Star Wars nonsense, but every cultural moment where the public reacts with groans upon seeing a public figure or talking point come back from obscurity.Over on X, the responses to the news that the infamous line was added in reshoots were swift.“The fact that they added the most memed line in modern Star Wars DURING RESHOOTS means someone at Disney looked at the script and said, ‘You know what this needs? A line that will haunt Oscar Isaac for the rest of his press tours,'” posted one person, while another chimed in with, “You could literally see the soul leaving his body while he said it. He knew the script was cooked.”Luckily, Isaac’s career hasn’t seemed to be affected since portraying Poe Dameron. He’s gone on to star in Dune: Part One, Scenes from a Marriage, Frankenstein, and the second season of Beef on Netflix, among other things.The post Oscar Isaac Sheds New Light on Star Wars’ Most Controversial Line appeared first on Den of Geek.