Ep 218 : Dominic Pace - The Mandalorian's Other Bounty Hunter
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
COMPLETELY MANDALORIAN SPOILER FREE
Discover how a chance make up test lead to LA actor and life long Star Wars fan Dominic Pace playing the bounty hunter Gekko on The Mandalorian!
Dominic talks about being on set with Carl Weathers, coming face to face with IG-11 & sharing his first day on set with George Lucas.
Plus Dom’s late 90’s appearance as a hyped on Star Wars fan on Entertainment Tonight that I actually taped off the television back in Australia!
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| 0:00.0 | Discover how a chance make-up test led to LA actor and lifelong Star Wars fan Dominic Pace |
| 0:06.3 | playing the bounty hunter gecko on Star Wars the Mandalorian. Dominic talks about being on set with |
| 0:13.6 | Carl Weathers, coming face to face with IG-11 and sharing his first day on set with George Lucas. |
| 0:21.7 | Straight out, in day one, you could not have forgotten, or in any way, shape, or form |
| 0:25.7 | because none other than George Lucas was right there in the canteena. |
| 0:29.2 | First day, G.L. |
| 0:32.2 | Tell us how that day went. |
| 0:34.4 | It was difficult, because as a diehard fan, but also at the same time, you're |
| 0:38.8 | working as a professional. Any fan, you know, you want to have this kind of fan meet and greet and |
| 0:43.2 | tell them all about your life and how much you've been a fan. And it was a very priceless moment. |
| 0:47.3 | He was speaking about the Mandelori universe with John Fevereaux, whose birthday had happened to be on |
| 0:51.2 | that day. I remember it from Instagram. Yes. And it was amazing because here you can probably count on one hand how many gods of entertainment |
| 1:02.6 | can actually have this level budget. |
| 1:04.6 | J.K. Rowling, Spielberg, George Lucas, maybe one or two more, |
| 1:08.3 | to where they literally are talking about their universe. |
| 1:10.7 | So it's almost like God, within the Hollywood Hollywood sense to watch first person talk about his creation. |
| 1:15.7 | And not only that, to be a new, unique part of that, it was just so magical, again, to be a Star Wars fan and to be there, it was priceless. |
| 1:22.0 | Plus, Dom's late 90s appearance as a hyped up Star Wars fan on entertainment tonight that I actually taped off |
| 1:28.6 | the television back in Australia. This is Steel Wars episode 218, Dominic Pace, the Mandalorian's |
| 1:37.9 | other bounty hunter. Hey you guys, welcome to Steel Wars. |
| 1:53.3 | I'm comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. |
| 1:57.2 | And each week we find someone of interest to talk about it with and this week is no |
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