Simon Pegg vs. Chewie

When running from the Stormtroopers, Rey and Finn steal the Millennium Falcon from Unkar Plutt – the character portrayed by Simon Pegg. In the final cut of the movie, this action remains without any consequence from the junk buyer. However, a deleted scene showed a confrontation between Rey and Plutt.

Basically, the merchant follows her at Kanata’s castle and confronts her. Believing to have an advantage, Rey pulls the blaster Han gave her. But Plutt easily takes it away. At this point, Chewbacca intervenes and defend Rey – however, he is already wounded at that point, so Plutt mocks him and pokes him in his wounded arm.

Chewbacca rips his arm and throws it away – and the role of Simon Pegg ends. Of course, this doesn’t add anything relevant to the story. But the main reason it was cut out was in order to avoid a harsher rating from the MPAA – limbs flying all over the place isn’t a family friendly scene. In any ways, this will probably be a scene to be included on the DVD, when it will be released.