OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a self-confessed “Star Wars” geek and says fans are going to be very happy about the latest incarnation of the saga, which he saw on the evening of Dec. 15.
At a Maclean’s magazine-sponsored, town-hall-style meeting at the National Arts Centre the following day, the PM faced a question from an eight-year-old in the audience.
“Is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as good as Harrison Ford says it is?” asked the youngster, identified only as Isaac.
Trudeau was taken aback for a moment and chuckled.
“I don’t know what Harrison Ford said about it, but I can tell you it is as good as I had hoped it was,” he said.
“I was your age when I first saw ‘Star Wars’ and like everyone of my generation, or everyone I knew of my generation—maybe I just hung out with geeks—it was a life-changing movie and I am very confident that this new iteration of it is going to make everybody very, very, happy.”
