Brains over Brawn. He is certainly not the physically strongest officer in the First Order, yet he has managed to work his way up to one of the highest ranks through cunning planning and probably a healthy dose of calculated backstabbing. Domhnall Gleeson says, regarding Hux’s rise in the First Order, “You don’t get that high up in your life that quickly unless you’re pretty ruthless. You have to put a few people down on the way to get there.” Hux is a tactician through and through, and this translates in the way he leads the First Order.
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