The I know someone who knows someone that was in a Star Wars movie thread!

[wookster]

The title says it all. I figured we needed a 6 degrees of seperation type of thing... any link will do, from serving Warwick Davis in a restaurant to being George Lucas' dad.

I'll kick off, this was back in the summer of 75/76 (both were amazingly hot summers in the UK, so I find it hard to rememeber the exact year)any way, when I was kid one of my best friends folks ran a pub. One lunch time their was a bit of a commotion arround the pub and it turned out Peter Cushing was with a group of people having lunch in the pub garden.
So my mates mum, the landlady of the pub introduced herself to him(she was a bit of a thespian herself) and asked what brought them to our little village.
He explained he was making a science fiction movie at Pinewood studios (which is about 25 miles away from the village I lived in), anyway, little did I know as the 8/9 year old I would have been, that this strange old man would end up being in a movie that changed my life, and I didn't even ask for his autograph even though I was just feet away from him!
Next story, a guy I work with is a big Arsenal fan and has a season ticket, he sits in front of Adrian Dunbar in the stadium...who, had he not been cut by Lucas, would have played Tarkin in Ep 1.

I've met other stars at premieres, trade fares and conventions and stuff, but they don't count...

How are you 'actually' connected to someone in the movies?

 

[thenammagazine]

Uh.... serving someone at a pub once, eons ago is no different than bumping into them at a Con.

 

[wookster]

Uh.... serving someone at a pub once, eons ago is no different than bumping into them at a Con.

Everyday encounter dude... not done by design...cheez you really are a card aren't you!

Go with it, stop being so analy retentive... We all know you specialize in that, but come on loosen up... it's meant to be fun!

 

[Blackthornone]

Uh.... serving someone at a pub once, eons ago is no different than bumping into them at a Con.

I disagree. If you meet someone connected to the movies at a pub, it was by pure chance, and that makes it much more special, because they just happened to be at the same place as you, when the Force brought you together. If you meet them at a Con, they are SUPPOSED to be there, and so there is no surprise involved, and no real specialness to you meeting them there. It's great to meet them to meet them, but it's not as great as a chance meeting. One night John Cusack went and sat down behind me to have dinner with his friends. He bumped his chair into mine and said "Sorry boss". He's a really cool guy.

 

[the dude person]

Uh.... serving someone at a pub once, eons ago is no different than bumping into them at a Con.

um... it sort of is... at a con, there's mostly nerds and the actors and people that are the focus of nerd-dom. So basically, at this place there's fans and actors for the most part, they're bound to bump into each other...

On the other hand, in the real world there are jillions of people that fall into other categories.

My point is, wouldn't it be more likely to meet a Star Trek actor for example, at a Star Trek convention, rather than meeting him in a bar? He kind of belongs at a Star Trek convention, it's a concentration of Star Trek things and people, whereas there would be no reason for this actor to be at a particular bar rather than another one.

 

[thenammagazine]

Everyday encounter dude... not done by design...cheez you really are a card aren't you!

Go with it, stop being so analy retentive... We all know you specialize in that, but come on loosen up... it's meant to be fun!

I'm just trying to figure out what you meant. It was contradictory.

It sounded like you were talking about people who HAVE RELATIVES who are or have FRIENDS of friends of the stars, not chance encounters.

 

[Darklord Dave]

Hmm, I used to be an assistant to a producer who was good friends with Carrie Fisher. Never met her, but talked to her on the phone a couple of times.

 

[thenammagazine]

Hmm, I used to be an assistant to a producer who was good friends with Carrie Fisher. Never met her, but talked to her on the phone a couple of times.

See, now THIS is what I thought you meant Wook, not, "I was at the pub yesterday and wound up sharing the urinal trough with Peter Mayhew."

 

[wookster]

As far as I'm concerned Nam it's all good, as long as it's random!

I remember reading a leftfield Star Wars fanzine years ago about a guy that met a girl at a club, she was a 'little person'.
Any way, things progressed and they ended up 'together' later that night. While talking about their lives she let it out that as a kid she had played an Ewok in Jedi... the guy freaked that he had done the deed with an Ewok...
Now that is a Star Wars story!

 

[thenammagazine]

As far as I'm concerned Nam it's all good, as long as it's random!

I remember reading a leftfield Star Wars fanzine years ago about a guy that met a girl at a club, she was a 'little person'.
Any way, things progressed and they ended up 'together' later that night. While talking about their lives she let it out that as a kid she had played an Ewok in Jedi... the guy freaked that he had done the deed with an Ewok...
Now that is a Star Wars story!

What did they name their "theesa?"

 

[Deak Starkiller]

I took a piss next to Kenny Baker, aka R2D2. That's pretty cool, right?

 

[Balsquat]

I took a piss next to Kenny Baker, aka R2D2. That's pretty cool, right?

You took a piss on R2D2

 

[thenammagazine]

You took a piss on R2D2

Maybe he thought Kenny was a garden gnome?

 

[Balsquat]

Maybe he thought Kenny was a garden gnome?

Poor Kenny...Should have been an Ewok

 

[thenammagazine]

Poor Kenny...Should have been an Ewok

Uh... he played Paploo.

https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Paploo​

 

[BuddyGus]

Dude, Kenny has "crazy eyes" in that photo.

 

[The Mike]

I call a part of me "Angry Wookie"....does that count?

 

[Balsquat]

Uh... he played Paploo.

https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Paploo​

 

[Batty]

I'm Harrison Ford.

 

[galactiboy]

I work with Kenny Baker... although he's about 5'9", Italian and originally from New York.