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 I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle. I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
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With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.
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When I go to restaurants I can never get my legs under a table. I bump my head in planes. People who sit behind me in the theater hate me. But I have given up apologizing to the world.
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Then I put on the new suit they`d made and it felt wonderful to climb back into it and feel the character coming back out again.
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They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.
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I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can`t talk about, so I`m perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III.
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I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia.
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This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.
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I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.
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When you`ve got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it`s too much.
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It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn`t know I was doing it.
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After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
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A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.
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When we first put the costume on, you could see the human shape underneath, so the padding gave Chewie his rounded shape, really.
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With Star Wars fans, there`s so much enthusiasm, and it`s a completely different generation now.
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Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.
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I think the main thing was that the character couldn`t speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
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George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.
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When you consider that you`re a character that doesn`t speak, but you`ve still got to react to the other actors, you`ve got to make a noise of some kind.
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But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.
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After a while, the character sort of took over.
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Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor`s director.
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It`s curious that when you look down at people you see their defects, their irregularities more clearly. I like my bird`s-eye view. I think it`s what gives Chewie his pride, his bigness. Bigness of heart.
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Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
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I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.
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George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I`d do any character he might create.
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Trivia
Fell sick during the filming of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), which prompted director Irvin Kershner to bring in another extremely tall actor to fill in for him as Chewbacca. All the footage with the double was scrapped and re-shot after Mayhew recovered because Irvin Kershner found that the double's body movements didn't match Mayhew's.
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Chewbacca won a Lifetime Acheivement award at the MTV Movie Awards.
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Became a naturalized U.S. citizen, along with 441 other people from 77 countries, in Arlington, Texas on October 17, 2005.
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After getting the role of Chewbacca, Mayhew went to the zoo and began studying the movements and mannerisms of various large animals to incorporate into the character of Chewbacca.
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Prior to starring as Chewbacca in the Star Wars trilogy, he was an orderly at London's King's College Hospital.
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) premiered on his 55th and 61st birthdays respectively. He appeared in the latter but not the former.
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Mayhew charges for his autograph at Sci-fi conventions. $20 for a picture he provides or $15 to have him sign your own item.
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He had the option of either playing Darth Vader or Chewbacca, as did David Prowse. Mayhew chose Chewbacca because he wanted to play a hero, whilst David Prowse chose Vader because he wanted to play a villain.
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