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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When Warwick Davis was seventeen,

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Speaker 1: George Lucas wrote the legendary nineteen eight fantasy film Willow

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Speaker 1: for him to star in after meeting him on the

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Speaker 1: set of Star Wars, where he played the ewalk wicket

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Speaker 1: in a furries suit. And then thirty four years later,

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Speaker 1: Warwick is back playing Willow in the new Disney Plus

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Speaker 1: series of the same name. Clearly the technology used to

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Speaker 1: create special effects has changed immeasurably, but Warwick tells Sky

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Speaker 1: News the heart of the two projects is the same.

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Speaker 1: It was very much about keeping the DNA of the film.

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Speaker 1: In this series, we're making something brand new, but we

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Speaker 1: had to keep that kind of ethos about Willow. What

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Speaker 1: made the film successful was the humor, the magic, the characters,

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Speaker 1: and that's always been George lucas is ethos and the

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Speaker 1: stuff he makes. It's all about a really good story

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Speaker 1: and great characters you can identify with. Willow is streaming

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Speaker 1: on Disney Plus. That's direct from Hollywood.