Per the outlet, Anthony Daniels could not sit in any respect on the “Empire Strikes Again” set. As such, for scenes just like the one the place R2-D2 is reattaching one in all C-3PO’s legs to his physique, Daniels must be set in place with out the C-3PO costume. The movie’s crew would then construct the remainder of the scene round him. Daniels additionally talked about this throughout a 2020 video interview with Wired. He defined:

“So, a sitting down second was much more enjoyable as a result of there is a level in a while the place 3PO is sitting on a field and R2’s there, and he is bought a foot and a welding torch, and he, in my ebook, he was saying, and I am saying, ‘The place do you assume it goes?’ […] I wasn’t sitting on the field. I used to be kneeling on the ground by the field with my ft popping out of the facet. Magic.”

It is no secret that “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and idea designer Ralph McQuarrie drew inspiration from Maria/The Machine Man (Brigitte Helm) in Fritz Lang’s silent 1927 basic “Metropolis” for C-3PO. (The pair look remarkably comparable.) Daniels mentioned within the Wired video that they first did a physique solid on him, with sculptor Liz Moore including clay to the solid to create the look. He was really dressed within the 17 items for his unique costume by the prop division, versus the costume division. All of it feels like one thing C-3PO would undoubtedly complain about.

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