This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with K2SO himself, Alan Tudyk!
We check out the Star Wars exhibit at Maddame Tussauds in London!
And much, much more.
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hello I’m Peter Townley And I’m Andi Gutierrez welcome to The Star
Wars Show, where we talk about the most important news concering all the citizens
of the planet…Star Wars news.
There have been a couple things recently that are also pretty important
No, Star Wars news.
Star Wars.
If you’re like us and can’t wait to see Rogue One in theaters on December 16th, have
we got an exciting experience to tell you about.
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And best of all, this immersive 360 experience is absolutely free.
Beginning on November 10th, you can head try it for yourself at select Verizon stores.
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On November 14th Rogue One: Recon will launch on Facebook 360 as well as YouTube 360 the
following day.
In other news, if you like costumes, Star Wars, and live or plan to travel to the Denver
area, then your venn diagram of personal interests is about to become a perfect circle.
Star Wars and the Power of Costume exhibit opens on November 13th and features more than
70 original costumes featured in all seven Star Wars films.
The exhibit will run until April 2nd at the Denver Art Museum.
Finally, a new Rogue One commercial is now airing and features a few never before seen
shots from the film.
You can watch it for yourself and analyze all the minuet details on our YouTube channel.
And for more breaking news from around the galaxy check out Star Wars.com
Hi David Collins here with the Star Wars Show, we’re at Madame Tussauds in London at the
Star Wars Experience.
These things are so life like, c’mon lets check them out.
I have a certain set of lightsaber skills…very good, very dangerous.
The wind machine on set was too loud for this scene so we’re going to dub in the scream later.
Noooooooo….I am your father.
I’m with Nicole from Maddam Tussauds, Nicole can you tell us how did you get so many amazing
details into these figures?
It’s a painstaking process, a team of 20 works on each figure, the hair is individually
inserted, we used 10 layers of oil based paint to get that transparent and translucency in those
skin tones.
Every mole, freckle is recreated.
Its not just you coming to see some incredible wax figures, but you’re actually getting
to step into those movie moments.
Have you seen the Star Wars Show?
You’ve seen the bit with the Yoda fountain and the voice, what did you think?
No comment.
Here at Maddam Tussauds you can get up close with these wax figures and really look at
the detail.
They just nailed the evil grin on Emperor Palpatine.
Next time you’re in London you have got to come check this place out!
What?
Okay Chewie, punch it.
Punch it!
Welcome back guys, today we are coming at you from Skywalker Ranch with a very special
guest, K2-SO himself Mr. Alan Tudyk
You said yourself in your interview with StarWars.com that you hadn’t quite grasped what you were
a part of yet.
Has that changed?
It’s starting to change, merchandising.
That’s really the taste I have at this point in time when we’re doing this interview.
I think I’ve got 5 or 6 figures, I got a bobble head!
So I got a sense of it there that you know, it’s not just a movie.
You can wear Ben Mendleson’s socks Droids in our galaxy, they’re kind of instant
stars.
3-PO, R2, BB-8.
K2 is something totally different.
He was formally with the Empire so he has that backstory, he could be a danger if he
was so inclined.
Now this obviously isn’t your first robot character that you’ve portrayed.
Sonny in I-Robot was an awesome, awesome robot.
Thank you!
Did your history as Sonny influence your portrayal of K2 at all?
Doing Sonny, what we worked doubt was how to move ergonomically.
How to move without character.
K2, he has personality in his movement.
I have always worked better and transferred better if there was a lite bit of a slouch.
There’s one point in the movie where K2 walks down a hallway and is passed by another
K2 model.
He’s like a soldier; he’s walking very perfectly and very straight and upright.
And K2 is kind of, sort of moping along a little bit.
I think that’s what makes K2 a little more accessible and gosh I’m gonna say it, lovable.
So the performance of K2 I think posed a few specific challenges because he’s gigantic
and you have to wear some stilts.
Yep I wore stilts, they were basically ski boots that had a pros ethic foot attached.
I could get around fine on them.
Sand was hard, running on sand.
And there are some moments, I’m very proud of my movement on the sand.
Sort of a run, to a quick stop.
I pulled that one off.
Sounds difficult.
It wasn't, for me.
So what do you think it is about sci-fi or our case, science fantasy, space fantasy that
elicits such a fanatic response in people?
First of all you got the costumes with sci-fi, so people get to dress as the characters that
they like and people around them in the sci-fi community accept them as that.
You can dress like Darth Vader and only be 4 foot 5.
They will treat kid Darth Vaders as Darth Vaders even more because it’s a kid.
Is Nathan Fillion jealous that you got into Star Wars before him?
I think Nathan Fillion is probably jealous, you know what?
I know he is.
This is how I know, he sent me a text the other day of him standing next to Mel Brooks
who is…
That’s pretty cool Oh my God!
And he said, jealous?
And I wrote back, oh my God!
Wow!
Wow.
I’m headed to Skywalker Ranch are you jealous?
And he didn’t write me back There you go.
I think his silence speaks volumes.
Awesome, well thank you so much for your time.
It was super fun to talk to you again and I’m so excited for Rogue to come out.
You guys, stick around there will be more Star Wars Show in just a second.
On Tuesday, November 15th, James Lucino’s new Rogue One tie-in novel Catalyst is being
released.
That seems like a pretty good opportunity for us to talk about Star Wars books!
There’s tons of them out there, and we want to know what your favorites are.
I always carry a copy of “Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thonbaka” with me.
Its everything you need to know about poker and space fish.
A true classic Peter, but I am partial to “The Empire Strikes Back” pop up book.
Very nice!
And you can let us know your favorites and why on Twitter using the hashtag #StarWarsBooks
and we’ll feature our favorite responses here next week.
And as always be sure to check out The Star Wars After Show presented by Verizon, where
I gather a panel of Lucasfilm employees to break down all the happenings in this week’s
episode of The Star Wars Show.
Watch it this Thursday and every Thursday on YouTube.com/Verizon.
Thanks for watching and may the force be with you.
See man, and the best page is this one, Nooo!
Ahh Darth Vader wins!
And I still have my hand, which is really strange
Well there’s no spoilers that way Fair.