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Speaker 1: Job mission with James and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: Our next guest is the one actor who's been in

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Speaker 3: every single Star Wars movie as well as many of

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Speaker 3: its spin offs. You know him as the Golden Droid

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Speaker 3: C three po But spoiler alert, there's a very interesting

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Speaker 3: man behind the metal. His name is Anthony Daniels and

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Speaker 3: he joins us now. Anthony, Hello, Hello, Hi, there, so great,

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Speaker 3: so great to talk to you. Take us back to

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Speaker 3: the very beginnings. Did you have an audition? How did

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Speaker 3: you find out you were going to play a robot?

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Speaker 1: I didn't find out.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to go for an interview for a

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Speaker 2: job that was in a low budget science fiction movie

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Speaker 2: and the job was in a robot costume. I said

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Speaker 2: that was a really bad idea because I was a

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Speaker 2: serious actor. My agent used some language that they couldn't

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Speaker 2: say even in Australia. Oh yeah, So I it up

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Speaker 2: in an office that George Lucas, who wasn't at all.

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Speaker 1: The kind of American mogul I thought he might be.

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Speaker 2: He was really quiet, timid, shy and lovely, and on

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Speaker 2: the wall was a painting of how the character might look.

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Speaker 2: As much as I liked George, I loved the painting right,

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Speaker 2: and when I when I read the script, it was

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Speaker 2: it was as though well I just had had to

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Speaker 2: play the part. And of course all this is described

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Speaker 2: in detail in my book now out in paperback called

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Speaker 2: I Am Crepio The Inside Story.

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Speaker 1: That's the part for today. I noticed that was a plug?

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Speaker 4: Was that a plug for your book?

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Speaker 1: I missed that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how good you are.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and it's it's in hard back, it's in Spanish,

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Speaker 2: it's in French, it's in Japanese. Sadly the Australian version

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Speaker 2: is not out.

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Speaker 4: It'd be bloody it'd be bloody good, I reckon if

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Speaker 4: it was so when you first saw the suit or

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Speaker 4: the costume or the outfit has changed? Did it change

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Speaker 4: much to what we know it as now? Would have

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Speaker 4: been kind of different in those early days.

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Speaker 1: Well back in the day.

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Speaker 2: The first the first thing I had to do on

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Speaker 2: the film was to be cast in plaster. Again, it's

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Speaker 2: in the book. And unless you've had your entire body

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Speaker 2: cast in plaster of Paris, you have no idea what

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Speaker 2: it feels like.

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Speaker 1: It's disgusting. But then they ended up with the statue

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Speaker 1: of me.

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Speaker 2: Then they made Liz Moore, the sculptor made a clay

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Speaker 2: figure of what you recognize. And the first real time

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Speaker 2: I tried it on all seventeen pieces was in the

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Speaker 2: desert of Tattoine.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and it didn't work.

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Speaker 2: And we're in the middle of a desert a thousand

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Speaker 2: miles from the nearest cab where I could get a

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Speaker 2: lift back to his throw and I was stuck with

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Speaker 2: wandering around the desert for two weeks in agony, only

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Speaker 2: to be exacerbated. But coming back to Elstree in the

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Speaker 2: summer of nineteen seventy six, which only the Australian Outback

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Speaker 2: can mimic in terms of heat, the roads were mounting,

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Speaker 2: there was no water and so the film came out

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Speaker 2: and it was a huge success. And here I am

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Speaker 2: today the zenis of my career as Ephreepio because we

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Speaker 2: are talking about the Lego Star Wars Holiday.

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Speaker 3: Special with your character. Were you aware with the filming

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Speaker 3: around you when the technology exponentially took off. Do you

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Speaker 3: just turn up on set and it's only when you

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Speaker 3: see the film that you see all that was going

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Speaker 3: on around you, or are you aware when you're filming

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Speaker 3: of all these changes that have happened.

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Speaker 2: That's a really good question because in the earlier films,

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Speaker 2: and I'm thinking here all of them, a lot of

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Speaker 2: the stuff on set was on the set and tricks

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Speaker 2: of camera angles and so on, and putting a bit

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Speaker 2: of dry eyes to hide the studio floor under the

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Speaker 2: rock village, simple things like that, using mirrors on the

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Speaker 2: side of Luke Skywalker's hoverocar, thing that the mirrors actually

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Speaker 2: hid the wheels, the tires of the vehicle we were in,

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Speaker 2: reflecting the sand in front and the audience in that

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Speaker 2: old magician stage trick, I think it's the sand behind. Nowadays, ah, yes,

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Speaker 2: roll the thing now you do need something, oh, except

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Speaker 2: you can do it digitally.

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Speaker 1: Is to brush out the tire tracks. And in that

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Speaker 1: case they had a bit of our rug.

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Speaker 2: Taped to the back of the car the sand away.

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Speaker 2: Now digital makes everything very correctible. But the caveat has

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Speaker 2: to be like in the prequels, where technology had moved

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Speaker 2: on so fast because of films like Jurassic Park with

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Speaker 2: wonderful industrial light and magic really advancing computer enhancements of reality.

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Speaker 2: But it was the sequels, the pequels that really made

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Speaker 2: me think, Wow, where is the future going?

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Speaker 4: What we see is spin off of C three po.

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Speaker 1: What a good idea, right to Disney said across.

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Speaker 4: Australia, they want this is your time to shine, as

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Speaker 4: it were, this is my time, Anthony. It's a treat

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Speaker 4: to talk to your lego. Star Wars Holiday Special five

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Speaker 4: is available on Disney Plus Today. Anthony Daniels, thank you, sir,

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Speaker 4: thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Australia Lash with Joins and Amanda