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Inside Star Wars

Wondery

Documentary, Film History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A torturous first day of shooting Star Wars in the Tunisian desert. Including a one-time “carpenter to the stars,” an actor named Harrison Ford. Cut to: A young George Lucas captivated and thrilled by a new gadget called “television” and the thrilling, swashbuckling serials of Flash Gordon. Later, Lucas falls for fast cars. More speeding tickets than baseball cards. Fights at home with his father over work and school and career. “I’m gonna be a millionaire before I’m 30,” he shouts at his dad. But he’s failing classes and his best hopes are for a life as an auto mechanic. Then, one fateful day he’s in his tiny Fiat turning left across traffic. That’s when a car smashes into him - an accident that nearly kills him. And an experience that will change his life forever.

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0:07.0	The following may contain mature content.
0:19.0	From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is Inside Star Wars. in the The remote control droids kept falling over, shorting out, crashing into each other.
0:57.0	Cut, cut, cut, cut.
0:58.0	Did we get at least five seconds of usable footage before that crash?
1:03.2	Six seconds George.
1:04.4	Good, let's move on.
1:08.4	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, can you hear that?
1:11.6	What's that noise?
1:13.0	The droids are radio controlled. I think they're picking up local radio.
1:17.0	Oh, fabulous.
1:20.0	What if we pull them along with wires until they fall over?
1:24.0	Sure, and we could also hide behind them, crawling on the sand and push.
1:28.0	Oh, fabulous.
1:32.0	By the end of the first day of shooting Anthony Daniels as C3PO was convinced he wouldn't survive the film.
1:39.0	His brilliant gold plastic costume took two hours to put on. It was tight. It was bolted to his body
1:45.8	above the waist. Another two bolts stuck into his neck. Every step was painful. He
1:50.8	lurched and hobbled. He was sore, he was cut up, covered in scratches and scars, and
1:56.8	this was the very first day of shooting.
2:01.6	Kenny Baker was inside R2D2.
2:03.5	Kenny, look out, there's a robot coming.
2:05.5	Kenny watched in terror as an out-of-control droid careen towards him.
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