And of course in the making, I would stand there covered in this fiberglass stuff. It was the first time out in the desert that I really tried on the whole costume, and it was just awful. I said, well, please may I play the part. The next day I went back and met George Lucas again. I looked into the eyes of the character, and his painting, the eyes of the character looked back at me and said, come with me. It was Ralph Macquarie's concept painting of the character. So if you put a big suit on me, I wouldn't look kind of humongous.Īnd the thing that changed my mind about being involved in the process at all was not George. I could control my body to a certain extent. And he wanted to see me because I'd come out of drama school quite good at mime.

I was reluctant because I didn't want to be in a low-budget sci-fi movie in the part of a robot. They'd heading in this direction? What are we going to do?ĪNTHONY DANIELS: It is so weird to be here in 2020 and think back to 1975, I think a day in November when I reluctantly went to meet George Lucas. Video TranscriptĬ3PO: Sir, my first job was programming-ĭANIELS AND C3PO: Binary loadlifters, very similar to your vaporators in many respects.Ĭ3PO: The possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is-ĭANIELS AND C3PO: Approximately 3,720 to 1. Anthony Daniels breaks down every 'Star Wars' movie through the eyes of his chatty alter ego, C3PO: from his initial reluctance to join the franchise, to dancing with Ewoks, and to the final goodbye.

I Am C-3PO by Anthony Daniels