The Last Jedi at Star Wars Celebration I go look at some really expensive statues
AND KITSTER IS BACK!!!
This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with Kitster himself, Dhruv Chanchani!
We check out the unsung heroes of Rogue One!
And much, much more!
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hi, I’m Anthony Carboni.
And I’m Andi Gutierrez Welcome to The Star Wars Show, the only show in the world that
has had the guy who played Kitster in The Phantom Menace on the air twice in less than
3 months.
You’re living your dreams I get to book the guests and you all just
have to deal with it.
We’re doing Kitster all the time!
I don’t if we should do all Kitster all the time…
That’s just what you think.
Kicking things off this week with a bit of Star Wars: The Last Jedi news, Lucasfilm president
Kathleen Kennedy and The Last Jedi director, Rian Johnson will appear on stage, together
at Star Wars Celebration Orlando.
The panel is set for Friday April 14th, and if you’ve ever seen a Star Wars Celebration
panel you can bank on there being plenty of surprises, special guests and unforgettable
moments.
For tickets and more details, head to Star Wars Celebration.com.
Speaking of, if you’re in Orlando for Celebration and need a handsome new Luke Skywalker action figure,
Look no further than this Star Wars 40th Anniversary Luke Skywalker Celebration Exclusive from Hasbro.
The figure stands 6 inches high, features 18 points of articulation, comes with a lightsaber,
blaster, and pilot helmet, and comes on a handsome replica card for the original Kenner
Luke Skywalker X Wing Pilot Action figure.
And he can be yours…at Star Wars Celebration!
Hey, weren’t you at Sideshow Collectibles on Friday?
Yes I was Andi, that was a great segue and incredibly well times.
Would you like to see what I did?
Would I?!
We’re at the headquarters of Sideshow Collectibles where they are known for making some of the
most beautifully detailed collector pieces on the market and they are going to show us
some of the new Rogue One stuff they have in the works.
Let’s go!
Oh my God!
Even you guys don’t have shelf space for some of your stuff.
Kevin you’re a Death Trooper specialist!
At this point, yeah.
When you look at it on the site its like “it can’t possibly look that good in person”
I am blown away.
Well thank you, that’s always the hope.
How many pieces is this guy? Honestly, I don’t even know at this point.
That’s how you get the quality.
Hand assembled in this office.
K2-SO was done all digital so we got digital files from Lucasfilm
There he is!
Look at his smarmy little robot head!
His joints are all hollow so there’s so much detail
I want to talk about Jyn, her holster and the drapery of her coat.
We knew this wasn’t her predominant costume in the film but we wanted to do something
you weren’t going to see on the market a lot.
You did an entire alternate head sculpt Yes, with the exclusive version.
This is the first view for anyone of this portrait in person.
We’ve only recently got a preview of this Rey and BB-8.
Since then we’ve actually tweaked the portraiture to get an even closer likeness.
It’s so hard to tell where the fabric ends and a sculpted piece of costume begins.
That’s a testament to the work of our sculptors and our tailors.
We wanted to make a BB-8 available for everyone.
He has an exclusive version as well with the thumbs up flamethrower.
Nice!
You’ve got one of the in progress models right here.
Right on the head and the dome.
What a good place to work.
Thanks to Mike, Kevin and the entire Sideshow team for letting me walk around their office
screaming at every amazing thing they do today.
Remember if you want to find out more about the Rogue One exclusive editions you can head
to sideshow.com to find out pre-order information.
I’m going to sneak this Bob Fett out with me a piece at a time.
Wish me luck.
The captain says you are a friend, I will not kill you.
I’m here with Ben Hartley, one of the extras that helps fill in the bustling background.
You’re no stranger to being in a flight uniform, is that right?
That is correct, yes.
I was a pilot in the Royal Navy.
You were inspired to become a pilot because of … because of Star Wars.
The first films, I think seeing the guys running out to their aircraft in their flight suits
and going off to save the galaxy was a pretty good inspiration.
When episodes 4,5 and 6 came out I was a boy and a young man and they made a massive impact
on me.
It’s one pretty special franchise that I’m so excited to be a part of.
My father was working for the United Nations so we moved around a bit.
We ended up in a place that had a British school and an American school and Star Wars
is what linked those two schools.
It’s a breathtaking privilege really, when you get the call.
It’s just not something you even consider saying no to.
Being invited again into an enormous family.
It’s a huge privilege to be standing here in all of this.
It’s amazing.
Now Gareth certainly has a distinctive style and approach of capturing all of this.
How are you finding that?
It was great actually because it’s so continuously flowing that you’re kind of indifferent
to that.
You just do it.
We’re doing it, and you know they’re picking up things all the time.
It’s very freeform.
The camera is basically just moving around to get the feeling that nothing is missed,
really.
He’s a master storyteller, you can tell that straight away.
He has a very clear vision of how he wants to tell the story without the camera kind
of imposing itself.
Letting the action unfold and capturing that story as it unfolds.
It’s those moments that Gareth tries to catch as a director where you’re overwhelmed
by what you’re seeing in front of you and you can’t keep fighting.
You’re trying to gather your thoughts, gather your courage.
You feel that you can’t carry on but you have to.
Those microseconds is what you’re catching, those are the moments for him to tell the
story.
Ready, ready, standing by.
Light it up.
Aright you may know him as Kitster Beanie from The Phantom Menace of the Holiday Space
Wizard from the classic Star Wars Show Holiday Special, please welcome my friend Dhruv Chanchani.
Hey!
How’s it going!
Welcome back Let’s start at the beginning, how did you
get the role of Kitster?
I lived in England during the 90s and the studios where they filmed all the indoor scene
was Leaves den Studios.
It was pretty nearby my school so one day they just came to my school and said who wants
to be in a major motion picture over the summer?
Yeah!
I do!
The first thing they did was just take a headshot of everybody and then they called certain
people back to read lines And that’s when you found out it was Star
Wars?
So I actually kind of figured it out by myself because the script that I read was only for
my scene.
But I was like, Anakin?
I know this name.
I had just read Shadows of the Empire like weeks before so I was on the drive home from
the studio with my mom and I was like, I think this is for Star Wars.
In the first episode of the Star Wars Show we did a bit called, “Everything is Important”
about Kitster and we’ve shown it to you.
And we talked about how your character is only in the movie for 88 seconds and most
of that time your hands are planted on the podracer.
Was that directed to you or?
Its probably more of like a Ricky Bobby thing, I just don’t know what to do with my hands.
Someone was just like, put them there and keep them there!
In our obsession with Kitster, we’ve come to the conclusion that you really didn’t
have any action figures.
You didn’t have any toys.
There was one Micro Machine Kitster figure all we could find.
Yeah it’s a sore spot.
But we’ve gone to great lengths to rectify this and our friends at Funko have made us
this one of a kind custom Kitster POP bobble head.
This is amazing.
The things I never thought I’d see in my life.
My own bobble head.
It’s uncanny.
Have you been surprised by the attention your character has gotten in the past 20 years
It’s funny how it spreads out.
People are like I know this kid that’s in Star Wars, and I know a kid who knows a kid
that’s in Star Wars.
And when you’re 8, that’s like incredible.
Yeah!
You’re super famous for an 8 year old.
In the last few years, my friends have tagged me in these Instagram posts or shown me, someone
made me a drawing of my character and I’m just like, who are these people?
These are incredible!
And you search a hashtag and there’s all these posts.
I’ve become a meme!
Before we go, I think to prove Dhruv Chanchani can do it even though Kitster couldn’t.
Its never been caught on film, a successful high five.
We should do it!
Ready?
Yes!!
First of all, I am stealing that custom Kitster.
No you’re not!
I’m hiding it.
Second of all, I need to declare from the rooftops that the person who said their favorite
Star Wars Alien of all time is Teek from Battle for Endor is correct.
That was the answer we were looking for, you are the last jedi.
Hashtag bring back Teek.
That’s not a real hashtag.
Frank, make that a real hashtag.
HA!
See, real hashtag!
Well, unlike you and your Teek fandom, our viewers came out in droves to support Ahsoka
While others stuck to more eclectic choices like Colonel Gascon
Or Bane Malar.
Oh, hey Cheeze.
Ah, yes, good call.
In case you missed it yesterday StarWars.com had an exclusive excerpt from the latest Aftermath
Book Empire’s End.
It’s from this part of the book.
Read it in its entirety right now at Star Wars.com
Read it right now, freeze frame!
Now if you’ll excuse us, I need to go flooding all of my social media accounts with hashtag
Bring Back Teek posts Hashtag battle for Endor
Hashtag Wilford Brimley Is Canon It’s totally a thing
Now they’re a thing Not a thing
Frank, don’t do it Frank, do it.
Frank, be on the right side of history Hashtag bring back Teek
He can turn into a little ball and whoosh