They have offered you a gold robot. I’ve turned it down.
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Fifty years ago, I began my acting career playing Puck in a student production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Rada. In the years since, I have appeared in BBC productions of David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, in hit series such as Doctor Who and Birds of a Feather, and not quite made it into the Star Wars franchise. Most recently, I played Oberon in a Globe production of Dream, giving a nice bit of circularity to a career that has had its ups and downs.
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Star Wars family unfortunately lost a few members last year like David Prowse, who physically portrayed Darth Vader in the original trilogy. The franchise also lost another veteran in Jeremy Bulloch, the actor who famously played the iconic Boba Fett. As with Prowse, tributes poured in for Bulloch following his passing, with one even coming from the actor who portrayed Fett in
Jeremy Bulloch passed away on December 17, the day before
The Mandalorian Season 2 closed out its second season. In the time since the episode first aired, it appears that the team behind the show has dedicated the finale to Bullochâs memory. This was evidenced by an acknowledgement in the closing credits. You can check it out for yourself down below:
Fans have largely turned against all three of the sequel trilogy films over their incoherent storylines, overreliance on nostalgia, and their ill treatment of series heroes and villains from the original trilogy. Some OG fans want the whole sequel trilogy retconned out of canon. To borrow canon from another movie franchise, I’d nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
The sequel trilogy remains so controversial that even Luke Skywalker has publicly muttered about it.
“That’s not my Luke Skywalker,” said Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill reacting to Rian Johnson’s take on the character in
Star Wars Confirms Fan Theory Between Yoda and R2-D2
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The Star Wars galaxy has been in our lives for decades now, introducing fans to beloved characters and expanding upon decades of canon. Once the prequel trilogy of films entered the fray, the connections within the Star Wars universe only started to deepen and they raised a lot of new questions along the way. Some of those questions have plagued fans for years, and it looks like one has finally been answered, to an extent, in the franchise s latest
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Spoilers for the The First Lesson story in