Keep the illusion that Fox had come up with great android tech for this 1977 sci-fi serial (C-movie) alive. They tried to pretend there was nobody “inside the suit,” at first. He endured this, and a thousand other injuries and insults, grievous to petty, many of which he recounts in “I Am C3PO,” a light and generally charming memoir that also - let’s be blunt, Tony - settles a few scores. He suffered for his art - injuries, daily cuts, nicks and scratches, about one serious panic attack (you try being locked into something you can’t escape from on your own, inhibiting your breathing, shoved onto sets where you have no sight lines and even a set of stairs offer great peril) every other film. Because God forbid the locals figure out a “Star Wars” sequel was doing location filming in their midst.Īnthony Daniels has been there, from the beginning, a lone actor wrapped in claustrophobic, myopic, suffocating metal/plastic and gold tape “suit,” a prissy fussbudget “English butler” lost in space, enveloped in “The Star Wars.” It came with ID badges, production tchotchkes, the works - an elaborate ruse. It was the cover-name for a short duration film shoot in the desert Southwest way back in the early ’80s. Do you know the horror film “Blue Harvest?” Ever heard of it? No?
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