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- Today on "The Star Wars Show," we talk "Star
Wars" with Gaten Matarazzo.
We play with the props from "Star Wars:
The Rise of Skywalker," plant a flag on Mount Everest,
and much more.
- Hello and welcome to "The Star Wars Show," the only Star
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- See, normally, we'd be tossing to the news,
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- Well, that was intentional.
The news, as you've noted, on this show
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"This Week in Star Wars."
- It's our very first spin-off, and like all spin-offs, it has
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- Now, Andy and myself will still be part of the "Star Wars
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Baver will be taking over delivering
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- Mm-hmm.
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I'm very thrilled to be joined in the studio
this week by Gaten Matarazzo.
- What's up, guys?
- Welcome, sir. - Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
- I'm excited to have you because I think any day now,
"Stranger Things" is gonna become huge for you.
- Maybe one day. - I think it's gonna--
- At some point.
- If you stick with it long enough, I think it'll pay off.
- I think so. It has to get some momentum.
[LAUGHING]
- I mean, obviously, everybody loves this thing,
and something that I look at, you're 17, yeah?
- Yes.
- You're 17, and part of your job
is to go real deep on pop culture
that 40-year-olds get into. - Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
- Is that something that you enjoy,
or is that something that you're kind
of like, I'd rather be, like, digging into my own stuff?
- A good portion of it I really enjoy.
And honestly, I'm so used to it at this point.
I've been diving into that side of pop culture since I was 12.
I was cast when I was 12 years old.
Urgh. - Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
- Urgh, oh, my god, It's been a while.
- This 17-year-old is sitting next to me and lamenting
the passage of time. - Yeah, no--
- That's cool.
I feel fine.
- No, but is it just me, or does it feel like--
it feels like yesterday. That's why.
- Yeah.
- I have a love of old games, of old video games.
- Bless your heart. - Oh, yeah.
I'm great at "Pac-Man."
I love "Galaga."
- So you're big into old games. - Yeah.
- You're big into old films.
Were you a "Clone Wars" kid before you
got into "Stranger Things?"
Had you--
- Oh, yeah, right?
I hadn't watched "Clone Wars" much until after it had ended.
- OK, yeah, sure.
- The thing is, like, I watched "A New Hope" when I was four.
- Nice. - I was four years old.
- You had good parents.
- For the first time when I was four, yeah.
I watched it once, and I was like, meh.
- [LAUGHS] - Seriously, I was like, meh.
And I was seven.
I was seven years old, and my uncle from Michigan,
my mom's twin brother, came down for the summer.
And he educated me.
And he was like, all right, sit down.
And I've been obsessed ever since.
And then my mom's like, you ready to watch "Empire"?
I had seen "A New Hope" like eight times.
I'm like, what's "Empire?"
And then she played it.
I was like, there's more!
And I was opened to this huge world.
As I got older, like, studying movies,
I became obsessed and watched them over and over again.
And like, I got, like, how many toy--
I don't really know how many toy lightsabers
I got for Christmases and birthdays over the years.
I got Obi Wan's.
I learned how to, like, swing around a lightsaber,
and I would watch Ewan McGregor do all of his fancy,
like, the Ani-Obi.
You know, like learn to do all the fancy moves and stuff.
- So you're good.
So you're kind of-- you can kind of do a little bit of it, yeah?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you have no idea.
Well the thing is, I always go outside and, look, by myself
and just pretend I was a Jedi knight, all by myself.
And I would take out swarms of storm troopers.
And it was the time of my life.
And I just, like, learned how to,
like, swing it around and, like, keep balances and stuff.
- See, original trilogy, when I was a kid
and we were watching the original trilogy,
it had not gotten quite as choreographed.
- Exactly, yeah.
- I used to go outside as a kid do the angry Luke.
- Durr, durr!
- The angry, crying, Luke.
- Yeah, "Return of the Jedi," like, Wa!
[LAUGHS] - Wa!
Wa! [LAUGHS]
- That was my favorite!
- And like, slamming down.
[LAUGHS]
- That's my favorite lightsaber duel, is the end of "Return."
Because as much as "Empire" is just pivotal,
there's so much raw emotion.
Mark's performance in that duel is just so good.
- It's so good.
- And just like, you can see him feel angry.
You can see like he's tempted.
- Yeah.
- That's what I love about "Star Wars" as a whole, is just--
and still love about Luke specifically,
and why I think Luke is just one of the greatest characters
written in cinema history, is that he's a hero, sure,
and he always fights for good and fights for justice,
but he's tempted. - Yeah.
- Like anybody would be.
- I love that.
You were into the OT, even though you
could have very easily been a kid that
had seen the prequels first.
- I'm just so glad that I didn't know who Anakin was before I
knew who Darth Vader was. - Mm-hmm.
- If you watch "Phantom Menace" before
you've seen the originals, just who
cares about that little kid?
- [LAUGHS]
- And then like you're curious as to, like, Qui-Gon's so set
on training him.
I'm like, what happens with Qui-Gon?
That's Obi-Wan.
He trains Anakin.
- What happens Qui-Gon? Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
- Yeah, I remember the first time I watched it, I'm like,
I like Qui-Gon, and I don't know what happens, and I'm not
excited to find out. - Yeah.
Going into the prequels, you know it's not gonna end well.
- Yeah, and I think that's what's fun,
is I always like things that go a little darker.
That is one of the things that I like about your series, too.
- Oh, thanks.
- Is it's like, cool, yeah, these are kids, but let's--
- It seems as if it's just getting more into that.
And as it progresses, it can only get worse.
- Right.
- From what we've seen and what we know from three, and just
like everything that's been set up,
I can't imagine the firestorm that's about to come.
I'm so excited for it.
- We know that it's coming.
We don't know what's going on. But--
- I don't know what's going on. - Yeah.
[LAUGHS] - Yeah, I--
- But we're excited? - I haven't read it.
I have not read it.
I don't want to until I get there.
I don't know when that is or what it's going to be like,
but I don't want to know.
- You heard it here first.
Actor Gaten Matarazzo will only read his script
the moment he gets to set.
- At the moment I need to.
No, no, no, no, no.
- He never prepares.
- [LAUGHS]
- He does no work ahead of time.
- It's true.
- This kid, this kid, he's just playing "Zelda" in his trailer.
He says, let me know when I'm supposed
to shoot a "Stranger Thing." - You know what?
Let me know when I show up. - He does work--
I didn't mean to-- - I'm--
- It was a joke. - I do--
- He works very hard.
He works very hard.
I did want to mention, before we end things here,
"Prank Encounter." - Uh-huh.
- When I heard "prank show," I got a little worried.
- Oh, did you?
- But this was something totally different.
When I watched the first couple episodes, I was like, yes!
- Oh, I'm glad.
I'm glad you like it.
- For people that aren't familiar with it, you're doing,
like, real-life kind of big-budgety,
like, sci-fi and horror stuff.
- Yeah, it's sci-fi horror themed.
You never can predict what's gonna happen.
- Yeah.
- Because you go in there, and you're like,
OK, this is what we should expect.
But there are gonna be people reacting on instinct,
and so you're gonna have to be able to think on your feet.
- That's excellent, man.
It is so much fun.
So "Prank Encounters" and "Stranger
Things" one, two, and three.
You can watch it on Netflix right now.
And then, just look right in that camera
and tell us when "Stranger Things Four" comes out.
Just date-- - [LAUGHS]
- Just date and time.
- [LAUGHS] - Just date and--
- Just say it.
- Just go-- no, you just go ahead and you--
all right, Gaten Matarazzo.
- [LAUGHS]
- And season four is coming out.
- It's coming out eventually.
- [BEEP]
- Move along.
- We are joined with Lucasfilm archivist Madlyn.
You're back.
- Hi.
We're so excited because this means
that we get to see fun new things from the fun new movies.
What have you got for us?
- Well, this is a new design for our Sith trooper.
I have a feeling you're gonna really enjoy this one.
Would you like to pull the trigger?
- Yes. - Oh.
[LAUGHS]
- We also have--
- Ooh.
- Oh.
Is this for jet troopers?
- That's hefty! - Yes!
- Wow.
- This is for the jet troopers.
This is a projectile launcher.
I think this is your new design for your T-shirt cannon, yeah?
- Looks like it.
- This is a Resistance blaster.
- Andy, I'm going to let you do the honors.
- OK, thank you.
[CLICK]
- Hoo!
- Oh, that's got the clicky in it!
- That is satisfying.
- This is Jan's blaster.
- It's got like an old, 1900s blunderbuss-y, steampunk-y
thing going with it.
- Another character that we see in "The Rise of Skywalker"
who is an oldie but a goodie--
I have a feeling you're gonna figure it out.
- Is this Lando? - That's for Billy D.
- [LAUGHS]
- Billy D has touched this.
[GASPS] Of course.
- Ooh, that--
- Of course Lando has this.
Look at the pearl on the handle!
- Mother of pearl inlay. - Oh!
- Yeah.
- So what you're about to see was originally
seen in "A New Hope."
- That's a dejarik piece.
- Phil Tippett, who built the initial dejarik pieces
for "A New Hope," he actually researched
the original chess pieces to rebuild them for "Star
Wars: The Force Awakens."
So now that they've been used in the sequel trilogy,
we have them here in the archives.
He has an armature built inside for adding mechanisms in order
to move them as needed.
- Like, that's not one I'm gonna be allowed to touch.
- That's incredible.
- So we've got a handful more.
- I'm doing, like, the childhood field trip to the museum thing
where I'm keeping my hands behind my back
and clasping them so I don't accidentally reach out.
- Oh, this guy, Houjix is his name.
- Yes to that guy.
- Oh, cool.
- He's got teeth in his claws.
- This is Mantellian Savrip.
- Oh, wow.
- Look at his little neck hairs!
- Very, very detailed.
So the next item might be one of my favorite props
from this film.
This is Lando's cane.
- Look at my hair go up on end for that!
- It really did.
- It really did!
- Look, he has goosebumps.
You are such a nerd!
- That looks so good, though.
- It's really beautiful.
What does the engraving say on it?
- The engraving says, Baron Landonis Calrissian.
When you look at this cane from the side--
- Does that look-- this is--
- It looks like Cloud City.
- Looks like Cloud City.
So this is the homage to Lando being the Baron of Cloud City.
Does that feel good?
- Yeah, it does.
- Do you feel like a baron?
- I do you feel like a baron, even more so than usual.
- This is Jenna's quiver full of arrows.
- That is so fly.
- I like the texturing on the storm trooper piece
is really interesting and unique, though.
- And last but not least--
- Oh!
- [LAUGHS]
- Goodness me!
- Wow.
- See a heavy blaster for a Sith trooper.
That's a very large weapon for normal-size dudes.
- That's one way to end this. Thank you.
[LAUGHTER]
Thank you so much for showing us all these amazing props.
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- Hey, everyone.
I'm starwars.com's Kristin Baver, and joining me today
are Emily Shkoukani, Anita Walas,
Pete Vilmur, and Orion Kellogg.
2019 was an amazing feat for everyone
at this table and everyone in this company.
We would be remiss if we didn't talk about "The Mandalorian."
And again, I know nobody here at this table
worked on "The Mandalorian" directly, but--
- I can't claim to have worked on it, but I wish I could.
- Right. - Right?
- "Mandalorian" feels like the "Star Wars"
that exists in my head canon.
It's the "Star Wars" that I've been trying to make.
- It was inspired by some of the things that, maybe,
George was inspired by for the first film-- you know,
your lone wolf and cub, your spaghetti westerns,
your samurai movies-- all those things
mixed into one and delivered in this
incredibly awesome package.
- I totally agree, where it's going back to just kind of like
almost narrowing down the scope of "Star Wars" to be like--
my mom calls, it's just a father and his
son traveling the galaxy.
- Right?
- It's relatable.
- Yeah, and it's, like, totally relatable characters, where you
are in this expansive universe, and you have so much
backstory to it, but you are just focused
on these two characters.
And also, my mom, like, does not care
about anything "Star Wars."
And like literally, every Thursday, did you watch it yet?
[LAUGHTER] Did you watch it?
We're gonna watch it.
And I'm like, OK.
So she's just, like, in love with it.
But I was on the phone, and she's like, yeah, it's
just like a father and his son.
They're traveling the galaxy.
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
Then they go, I'll go to this planet, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
And I was like, I'm happy you finally like "Star Wars," mom,
and you're getting into it.
And so I think it definitely, like, just cracked open
a whole new audience for people who, you know,
this is the first time they're seeing "Star Wars,"
and that's what they're watching.
- Let's turn a little bit to "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order."
You and your team worked, you know, pretty tirelessly
to pull this thing together.
Can you talk about, you know, what your perspective
is, being on the inside?
- You know, the most rewarding part about working on this
with so many talented people was that it seems like people
did connect with the story.
We were on Branca and Bogano and going places people hadn't
seen, and wrestling with themes that we
hadn't wrestled with before.
I don't want to spoil it, but I'm really proud of the way
the journey ends up and what possibilities there
are for Kal in the future.
- Can we talk about going to Dathomir?
- Sure.
Dathomir I think, looks incredible.
You know, it's just space, obviously, we're
borrowing from animation and the way
that Dave and team brought it to life.
And I think that the Respond team just really fulfilled
every ounce of that promise.
Fighting Nightbrothers, they're really exciting enemies.
A lot of variety there.
But then, getting to meet a Night Sister is incredible.
- Dathomir is important for people
who saw "The Clone Wars."
But if you haven't, you're like, this is a cool planet!
- Yeah, right? - Totally.
- You know?
And you're just like, yeah, that person looks like Maul.
- Right? - That's cool, you know?
If you have the knowledge to know more about it,
you have it.
And if you don't, it's not like you're left behind.
And Emily, a big part of your job is also helping to helm
and shepherd the continuity on books, publishing, comics--
you know, that massive thing that we
do here with publishing.
- Yeah.
You put out a tremendous amount of books leading
up to "The Rise Of Skywalker."
There was "The Rise of Kylo Ren" comic,
which was making some waves.
- Yes, it is making some waves.
It's still coming out, so--
- It is.
It is.
I don't know how it ends.
- Yes.
It kind of gets into the backstory of, again, the rise
of Kylo Ren as the title.
- As the title suggests.
- You know?
So you see the fall of Ben Solo, which is super cool.
But like, and then, I guess it's super cool if you're
into him being Kylo Ren.
It's also super sad if you wanted
him to be Ben Solo, right?
It's kind of paralleling Anakin's fall.
We always look to make those parallels throughout.
And that's really a big part of, like, what the story group
does, is make sure that it all feels like this really
big cohesive story, no matter how, you know,
small something is-- like one issue of "The Rise Kylo Ren."
- Yeah, again, I think that's an important part for the folks
at home, right?
Is like we don't feel as, you know,
the content creators, I don't think,
feel restricted by any of the continuity.
We don't have to change the story we want to tell.
We just have a lot of resources to plug into to tell
the story that we want to tell.
And it has a lot of richness if we do it right.
- Yeah.
- So just switching gears to talk about the amazing event
and the feat that was the world premiere of "Star
Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."
I still feel like a total noob when I come to these things,
like--
- This is actually a blue carpet.
- This was a blue carpet.
You're right, you're right.
And this event was really special, because not only was
it the end of the Skywalker saga,
but we also were able to invite 120 fans from all 50 states.
- Well, we actually had-- we actually had more like
200 fans that we got to invite.
But what was special is we got 120 of them
in costume, which is a feat, representing
all films of the saga, and from all 50
states in the United States, as well as
a handful from international.
So it was a really great, great experience
and a wonderful opportunity to get
a lot of fans who otherwise wouldn't
be invited to one of these.
So it was fantastic.
- Why do you feel like it's important to have fans
at an event like that, and also fans in costume
at an event like that?
- Because these films are made for them.
This is what it's all about.
And of course, we enjoy all the energy they bring, of course.
- We feed off it. - We really do.
[LAUGHTER] We really do.
I mean, this is for them.
- That's how we stay alive.
- This is basically our thank-you
to the fans for supporting us through the years, you know?
We want to give him this special experience,
and we're glad to be able to do it and continue to do it.
- So with "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker"
being the end of the Skywalker saga,
how does it change your experience being a fan watching
the film now that you also work at Lucasfilm and it
is part of your day-to-day?
- I actually-- well, I didn't actually
know anything about the movie.
I was-- somehow, I worked in PR, and I was
able to avoid most spoilers.
I didn't read the script.
I chose not to, and I was glad not to.
- After seeing "The Rise of Skywalker," I was like,
I have so many more ideas now for what we could tell stories
on, because it has introduced so much more lore
to the Star Wars galaxy, and it's like so unexplored.
And it's really not my job to create this story.
This is more so my job to manage those stories afterwards.
But I'm, like, so excited.
I can't wait to really get into, what does this mean?
What does that mean?
Like, what are we gonna do with all this new information?
- I think another really exciting thing about "Jedi:
Fallen Order" is this long, non-linear interactive
experience that feels one way.
Then you go watch "Mandalorian," and it's just so personal.
And then you go to "Rise of Skywalker," and it's just epic,
and the scale is incredible.
And every possible thing you could imagine
is there and then some.
And it just reminds you how many possibilities
there are for storytelling.
And so I think there's lots of great stuff to come.
- Thank you so much for joining us.
It was amazing to hear all of these different perspectives
from .com, and from story, and from games, and from PR,
and also just from a bunch of fans getting
together and getting to talk about "Star Wars"
for a little bit.
- Totally.
[BEEPING]
- That was a fun little show!
- Yeah, absolutely!
[LAUGHING]
- Oh!
Coming in hot!
Look who decided to join us.
- You know, man, I can't tell if it's cool or pathetic
that you're still wearing your wardrobe
from your cameo, your small cameo in "The Mandalorian."
- Bro, you know they blew you up after, like, three seconds
after you rolled onscreen.
You're kinetically dead in that outfit.
- Yeah, Mr. Big Shot Hollywood guy, hitting shins,
thinks he's the kind of "Star Wars" now, huh?
- You have a trailer?
Should we end the show?
- Sure.
- We hope you enjoyed the new and improved "Star Wars Show,"
and we'd love to hear what you think in the comments below.
Plus, if you have any ideas for what
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stay cool, my babies.
- [LAUGHS] Thanks for watching, and may the force be with you.
- I like this clap that you were doing.
- This is the--
- Like excited Anthony slash seal.
- Yeah, like a toddler.
I'm excited like a toddler for this new thing,
and I hope that you are too.
[ENGINE BLASTOFF]
[BEEP]
- How does he even get this stuff into a trailer?
- If he has a trailer and an elevator, I'm gonna be so mad.
- What if you just have, like, a real beefy dude standing there
to lift him into the door?
- You've been asking for that for years.
- I know!
- I mean, they will give it to you.
They give it to him? [BEEP]
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