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Post #662820

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ATMachine
Parent topic
Making of Return of the Jedi (the book) Thread
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Date created
2-Oct-2013, 1:28 PM

SilverWook said:

The fake script pages have long fascinated me. One interview in the old fan club newsletter Bantha Tracks dropped the misleading tidbit that Aunt Beru was still alive! That made my brain hurt for a while at the time, trying to figure out how it was even possible. ;)

How does Dave Prowse fare in this? We've only had his interviews about the miserable time he had on the set, after being blamed for a script leak, and the frosty relations with Lucas ever since.

Prowse comes off as a bit naive, sadly--he seems to have been in complete denial about the fact that Vader would likely be killed off. Of course no one ever told him that he wouldn't be the one to play Vader unmasked--in fact, he found out about the casting of Sebastian Shaw from a reporter who had studied some leaked call sheets!

Prowse was once again given fake script pages as a rule. It's also noted that he had a tendency to speak his lines on set extremely fast--so much so that Marquand had to tell him to talk more slowly because James Earl Jones would take longer to say the lines.