Five New Interviews at StarWarsInterviews.com

 
 


There are five new interviews at StarWarsInterviews.com.

Years ago, many Star Wars fans didn't know that the voice of heroic X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles was dubbed. It was David Ankrum who spoke his famous lines in Star Wars: A New Hope. To some older readers his last name may sound familiar; his father was none other than Morris Ankrum, an actor that was featured in many TV series and movies. StarWarsInterviews was lucky to have the chance to ask David some questions about his career, Star Wars, and growing up with a certain effects legend...

Frazer Diamond is one of the youngest persons to have appeared in a Star Wars movie. At the age of 7, he and his brother Warwick were featured as Jawas in Star Wars: A New Hope, a movie where their father, the legendary Peter Diamond, was the Stunt Co-ordinator. In the following interview Frazer talks about his memories regarding that Galaxy far, far away...

For Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, the part of Jedi Saesee Tiin was played by Kenji Oates. Originally he isn't an actor and had a different job to do regarding this movie. In the interview SWI had with him he tells everything about how he got involved and how he landed the part of Saesee Tiin.

Niki Botelho was only 16 years old when she was cast for a role Star Warsfans will always remember her for: the rodent-like Teek from the TV movie Battle For Endor. This movie was the sequel to The Ewok Adventure and featured Warwick Davis (Wicket the Ewok), Aubree Miller (Cindel Towani) and veteran actor Wilford Brimley (Noa Briqualon). In August 2010 I had the rare chance to chat with her, mainly about this Star Wars spin-off of course. According to Ms. Botelho, it was her first Star Wars interview in over 20 years...

After going to USC (where he met a fellow student called George Lucas), Hal Barwood began his career as a screenwriter. Along with Matthew Robbins (who also studied at USC) he wrote Sugarland Express, the first movie of Steven Spielberg. After this, he appeared in the Spielberg classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and produced the cult fantasy movie Dragonslayer with (once again) Matthew Robbins. Then, he moved to Lucasarts where he worked as a designer, writer, and project leader on games such as Star Wars: Rebel Assault II, Yoda Stories, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. In the following interview I had with Mr. Barwood he talks about his career, and how he knew about the fourth Indiana Jones movie.....almost 15 years before it was released!