{"id":67040,"date":"2015-12-12T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67040"},"modified":"2025-01-17T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:09:42","slug":"c-3po-does-something-special-in-star-wars-the-force-awakens-anthony-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/12\/c-3po-does-something-special-in-star-wars-the-force-awakens-anthony-daniels\/","title":{"rendered":"C-3PO does something special in \u2018Star Wars: The Force Awakens\u2019: Anthony Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO \u2013 In the nearly four decades Anthony Daniels has been playing droid C-3PO in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d films, he\u2019s never been able to do one simple task while in costume \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time in this movie, for the very first time, Threepio picks up something very small,\u201d the 69-year-old English actor said of the highly anticipated \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens,\u201d in theatres next Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been able to do that before. Before, they\u2019ve always been these club hands that had no relation to the size of mine, and finally I said, \u2018This is hugely frustrating not to be able to articulate,\u2019 so they go, \u2018Well, we\u2019ll make some new hands.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for the first time \u2013 watch for this moment, it\u2019s that pivotal point of the movie, absolutely \u2013 I pick up something very small. I won\u2019t tell you what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniels is the only actor to have worked on every instalment of the epic space drama. For the first film in 1977, his gold droid suit was created with materials including glass fibre.<\/p>\n

But for \u201cThe Force Awakens,\u201d director\/co-writer J.J. Abrams and the team used slightly different materials, including 3-D printing.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooks the same but it enabled us to make little nuanced changes to it so it is easier for me to wear,\u201d said Daniels. \u201cIt\u2019s not brilliant, never will be, but in changing it, it made me realize how brilliant the original suit was.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Force Awakens\u201d is set 30 years after the events of \u201cReturn of the Jedi.\u201d Other franchise veterans in the cast include Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. New cast members include Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Adam Driver, and Oscar Isaac.<\/p>\n

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Abrams, director of the 2009 \u201cStar Trek\u201d reboot and its 2013 sequel, is taking the franchise helm from creator George Lucas. The plan is for a new trilogy, but Daniels wouldn\u2019t say if he\u2019ll be in the next two instalments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wait to see next week,\u201d he teased.<\/p>\n

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\u201cStay tuned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniels had high praise for Abrams and was even wearing robot-print socks the director gave him.<\/p>\n

\u201cJ.J. brought his original, childlike enthusiasm that he first remembered on seeing it way back when he was 11 years old,\u201d said Daniels, \u201cand I think he induced that enthusiasm in everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniels also got a thrill seeing the new cast members joining an iconic franchise they knew as kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuddenly a lot of people who joined the crew for this film are doing something they never thought they\u2019d get to do \u2013 futz around the Millennium Falcon or stand next to C-3PO or meet the new baddies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey knew the world and now they were a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniels said Abrams was \u201cvery clear that he wanted in this film to keep CGI, computer graphic stuff, green screen stuff, to a minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n

C-3PO \u201cis not in any way CGI,\u201d he added, noting it takes human skill to bring out the essence of the character.<\/p>\n

And for all the new things his character is now able to do thanks to modern materials, it\u2019s clear Daniels has a certain nostalgia for the early, low-budget days of \u201cStar Wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were elements in the early \u2018Star Wars\u2019 that I loved,\u201d he said. \u201cR2-D2 would often be on a piece of string that people were pulling. If the camera doesn\u2019t look at it, you don\u2019t see the guy with the string pulling it along, and I like things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Landspeeder had mirrors at 45 degrees, so instead of seeing the wheels of the car, you were seeing the sand… reflected in the mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a magician\u2019s trick.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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