Daisy Ridley on 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens': Audiences Will 'Be Blown Away'

Just like a certain fight club, the first (and second) rule of Star Wars is that you do not talk about Star Wars. That’s the mandate that director J.J. Abrams handed down to the cast and crew of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and they’ve stayed within his cone of silence since the film went into production in May 2014.

“There are like snipers on rooftops waiting for us to say something and then take us out,” Oscar Isaac jokingly (we hope) tells Yahoo Movies in this exclusive video. “I was never good at keeping secrets, and now I’m so good at keeping secrets,” laughs newcomer Daisy Ridley, who plays desert scavenger-turned-galactic adventurer, Rey, one of the many few faces appearing in that far, far away galaxy post-Return of the Jedi.

But Ridley and Isaac both agree that the secrecy is all for a good cause. “Nobody wants spoilers unless you’re going to see them on the big screen,” Ridley explains. “I think it’s an amazing thing that we’ve kept it as secret as we have, because people are going to turn up in December and be blown away.” And Isaac, who pilots his own X-Wing as ace flyboy Poe Dameron, insists that it’s “kind of fun to have that little secret…that will be shared with the entire world.”

Of course, they both have to stay on message, since they’ve got Abrams looking over their shoulder. “We can’t really talk about story yet, we still have months to go until the film comes out,” the director says, adding that another new trailer is on the way in the fall. But you’ll still have to wait until Dec. 18 to get the scoop on all the film’s secrets, including the identity of the current captain of the Millennium Falcon — and whether that infamous spaceship is still the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.