Hey folks, Harry here with a heads up from the land of Ire, home of the man of Wray and the provider of this bit of info regarding... STAR WARS EPISODE TWO.... Interesting eh? Click here to read the entire original article
Hi there, I'd like to bring your attention to an interview with Adrian Dunbar in today's Irish Times. He was originally supposed to appear in Episode I. Here, he claims that he has been cast in Episode II and III. I will reproduce the relevant passage exactly as printed:
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"Well, I did STAR WARS, but I wasn't actually in the film because George Lucas called me up and said that for plot reasons he couldn't include my character - which I found a bit strange. I only had five or six lines and the only reason I was to do this one was because Lucas wanted to include me in the next two. And then he said he couldn't. It's all a bit...I don't know. It's all up in the air. You go in and you stand in front of a big, blue screen, and there's three guys with pig's heads behind you talking in some weird language and it's just mad. Mad(in italics).
"Before we did it, the director came up and said to me: 'By the way, George wants you to do this with an American accent.' And I said: 'That's the first I've heard about it'. And he said: Well, that's what he wants'. So I practised a bit and got my couple of lines off in an American accent. And after I did it there was silence. And then I heard this voice saying: 'That is the worst American accent I've ever heard.' And I thought, 'who the f*** is that?' I peered out through the lights - and it was my old mate Liam Neeson taking the piss."
Madness notwithstanding, he's quite happy to be "in" the next two films of Lucas's planned trilogy; "you just go on about your life, and then one day you get a call saying 'we're making the next one'. Seemingly that's what happens. Very strange."
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Well, that's it. Hope this is of some interest to you. Keep up the good work!
