- This week, we bring you to "The Mandalorian" fan event.
- Plus, everyone's favorite golden droid
stops by to talk about his time working on "Star Wars."
- Your favorite.
- He's OK.
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- This is "The Star Wars Show!"
- Hello, and welcome to "The Star Wars Show," the only Star
Wars show on the internet that is, once again, reporting
from an undisclosed location.
- Dude, we're at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
- Nobody knows-- - I mean, it's--
- --where we could be.
- It's pretty obvious we're at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
- Could be anywhere.
- But we've been on the road so much that we decided
to put the setup on Endor B&B.
- Cozy studio apartment in San Francisco,
right within walking distance to Dave Filoni's office.
[GRUNTING]
- Aw, he looks so comfy.
- I just hope we get a high rating.
- Mhm.
- We are now two episodes into "The Mandalorian,"
and we can no longer hold back our excitement.
- Yes, so if you haven't watched yet, or you aren't caught up,
please skip ahead to this time code.
- Are they gone?
- Yeah. Oh, my god.
- Oh, my god. The child is so cute.
- The child is the cutest thing! Oh, my gosh.
- I'm so glad that we can finally
get that out of our system. - Yeah.
Be sure to catch new episodes of "The Mandalorian"
on Disney+ every Friday.
- And the Star Wars don't stop there!
"Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" was recently released
to Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
And it is maybe my game of the year.
It is so wonderful.
- It's beautiful.
It's like a ton of fun.
And starting tomorrow, you can cross blades with Darth Vader
in ILMxLab's "Vader Immortal: Episode III,"
the final installment in the VR series
on both the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift headsets.
- But if that was not enough Star Wars for you--
and we know that it never is--
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- The pages showed Aphra jumping into action
and possibly some love lingering between her and her new captor,
Rebel Captain Mangetolva.
- Just will-- will they?
Won't they? Will they?
Won't they? Come on, already.
Head to StarWars.com/sws right now
to take a look at those pages.
And be sure to pick it up when it hits
store shelves on November 27th.
- For more information on all the news stories we talked
about today, plus all the Star Wars
news from around the galaxy, check out StarWars.com.
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- We've been talking around this thing for so long.
- Yeah.
- And now, we've seen the first couple.
- What's so cool is, unlike most of the times
I'm on a red carpet, it's for a movie
that people haven't seen yet.
But here, everybody has seen the first one already.
And so we're walking into this premiere more like a party.
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- Y'all took a big swing in the first one, huh?
- Did we?
I guess.
It was just Star Wars being Star Wars to me.
- Yeah.
- You know, I mean, it's gotta be exciting.
It's got to be an adventure.
It's got to introduce us to some new characters
that surprise us.
And turns out, it's a great team up here with our crew,
and John, and I. And we just came together, making
something we really care about.
- Werner, when I heard that you were
going to be involved in Star Wars, I got incredibly excited.
But then it occurred to me, has Werner
Herzog even seen "Star Wars?"
- No, I have not.
But it doesn't matter.
I know that there's a new mythology emerging.
A whole universe is being created in fantasy.
So this is very big.
- What attracted you to working on this?
I mean, obviously "Star Wars."
But was there something about your episode
or about this series, in particular?
- It probably wouldn't take much [CHUCKLING]
for someone to say come on, and do a "Star Wars" story.
I really got excited, because it felt like it was an opportunity
to tell stories that were very familiar
and felt "Star Wars," but also doing different things
and pushing different kinds of ideas.
- Hello, Emily. I'm Anthony.
Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, Anthony.
- And it's nice to see you, because we
didn't get to see you.
- Which I have to tell you, makes getting to set
and getting ready so much easier than what I usually do.
- Were you very steeped into the lore of "Star Wars"
and Mandalorians, and all of this stuff
before you had gotten in?
Or was this something you were--
- I tried to be.
But I have to tell you, when I started doing research,
I realized there's like a million different rabbit holes
to go down.
After I did my own digging, I talked to John.
And I talked with Dave about, you know,
what was important for this telling of the story.
- This is obviously a mix of old techniques,
of new techniques, new technology.
Was there an idea of how much was going to be this entirely
new tech and how much was going to be the stuff
that we'd used before?
- Yeah, I think we both delight in
the oldest of the old techniques and the newest of the new,
and kind of using the right tool for the job.
- I loved watching that IG unit lumber around, man.
IG-11 looks so good.
- With IG, we really wanted something that
didn't look like a human being.
And it has a very stilted, almost like a windup robot,
kind of feel, which is funny.
And yet, at the same time, he's completely lethal.
And so that was just super fun for the animators
to come up with.
- Now that we've got to see your character in context
in the world, being surrounded by "Star Wars"
for the first time, what sort of clicked for you?
What was your feeling in the moment?
- The feeling in the moment was, oh, my god.
But then we had Favreau.
We had great writing.
We had Dave Filoni, and we had a great group of actors.
We had a lot of fun doing those scenes and doing the show.
So hopefully, audiences are going to love it
as much as we enjoy doing it.
- When they came to you with "Star Wars,"
was it just the size of that mythology
that made you say yes?
Or was there something else about John and Dave?
Or what was it?
- No, no.
It was John Favreau, who was absolutely convinced I would
be the right one for the part.
And I have a feeling, since my character is somebody not
to be trusted, I'm quite OK.
So this kind of part, I think I can manage easily.
- That big old change up at the end of episode one,
did you have any nerves about it at all?
- No, I was nervous about people finding out about it.
Because how do you keep a secret nowadays?
Because for Filoni and I, it was really
important to surprise people.
It took a lot of work, but I think the delight of the people
as they discovered it at the end of the first episode,
it paid off.
And to me, that's what's fun about being
able to do a weekly show.
Because each week, you can unfold something else,
uncover something, flip another card over,
and make it a conversation between the fans
and the filmmakers.
- If the reception is as good as it seems it is,
I hope we get to do a lot of things.
I hope it expands our storytelling.
I think that this show proves that there are many things
we can do, many avenues.
If you just have good creators behind it
and good story planned out, then you can do anything.
So who knows?
I mean, I think there are a lot of characters
knocking on the door that want to get back on the screen.
So we'll see which ones make it.
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- My guest this week says he's been in every single "Star
Wars" movie.
But I re-watched them all recently,
and I only saw his face once.
So take that for what it's worth.
[KNOCKING]
- Oh!
- Anthony Daniels is here.
- Wait, where did you come from?
- I came from over there.
And then I went to come to my seat.
And turns out, you're in it.
So good for you.
Good power move, right off the top.
- Well, I checked out the background.
I mean, are you jealous?
Look at this.
Do we see Carboni material behind you?
- No, but to be fair, once again,
I don't see any Daniels back there, either.
- Hey, hey.
I don't need to have my face on camera to be famous, you know.
One day. One day.
[CHUCKLING]
Behave.
- You behave.
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So you wrote a book. You're touring around with it.
- You heard? You heard I wrote a book?
- I heard.
You may have mentioned it once or twice.
- I wrote a book called--
shall I do it in the voice?
- Please.
- "I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story."
- I love it.
- I love it, too.
- This is the story of your entire experience as C-3PO,
right?
- Yeah, that's right.
It's about my life around the movies.
It's kind of hung on all 11 movies, not just the three
trilogies.
Oh, no, no.
I worked a lot.
You'll see.
In the book, I talk about-- and I try and do it.
It's a bit of a challenge-- to explain technical
things in words, without--
you know, no diagrams or pictures, whatever.
And one of the things that you can see very clearly
in the first movie-- and actually,
this is not in the book-- that one
of the legs keeps catching on--
- Anthony Daniels stopped himself from saying something.
I'm going to take a moment and marinate on that.
- OK, yeah. - Like wow.
- OK. - I can't believe it.
- There are no-- - No, go on.
Go on with the anecdote, please.
- You can-- I can see that bits of the costume were
catching on things, which meant one
leg got longer than the other.
And I'm kind of hobbling along in the desert.
In the first film, there was only one person with his eye
to the camera.
You realize this?
And George would say, you know, how was that?
And the cameraman would go, huh, it was OK.
Now, you've got big plasma screens everybody can see.
It doesn't have my name here.
Why is that?
Can we get a graphic of the book up on here?
- Absolutely not, Anthony.
Absolutely not.
- I wrote a book.
It's a ton of work.
- I'll allow you to pick up your cardboard cut out, again.
Give me your poster board. - Take it.
I love this. Thank you.
Yeah, OK. - Here, do that.
Are you comfortable, now?
- I love that. - Yeah.
- Can we just straighten me up a bit, there?
It's just-- you're not good with props, are you?
I mean, that's good.
I think that's fine.
Sorry, you were saying. - Was I?
- Yeah.
Anyway, one of the reasons to do it now,
first of all, I was asked to do it.
But now, of course, we have a little film coming up--
- Yeah.
- --in December.
In just a few-- but I'm here first.
My book's out.
By happenstance, one of the best films
is going to be "Rise of Skywalker"
that I have adored working on.
I believe the bits I've seen, knowing what happened
on the set, knowing what JJ is like with his huge brain,
huge intellect, huge spark, his childish joy
in the whole thing--
that's going to make this film really
the one for me to end on.
People say, am I sad it's over?
No, not at all.
I think it's good when a story comes to an end.
Let's stop here, because we had a great time.
Sorry, did you want to say something.
I'm awfully sorry. - No, no.
- Because when we have visitors like you on the set,
it's kind of, sometimes, hard for them to cope.
- This is all very new to me.
This-- this whole thing. - Yeah.
Yeah.
- So I appreciate you leading me through it.
- Can I ask you, just because I like
to connect these dots in my head,
was your last day that trailer moment?
- No, my last day, curiously, I was
with other actors on the set.
And I didn't have a thing to say.
3PO was there, looking around, didn't have any lines.
My last day, after all these years, nothing.
Nada. Isn't that weird?
- That's so weird.
- It's really ironic.
- Skywalker soon.
Book is out now.
This is a very exciting month.
And we're very excited that you made a little time to come
out here and hang out with us.
Anthony Daniels, always a pleasure.
- How are you doing?
- You're-- - Watching--
- The-- - Star--
- Wars-- - Show.
- It'll be sad to leave this top secret location.
- That's definitely not Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
- I mean, I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying we're at Walt Disney World.
- You're not saying that? OK.
- No, it's secret.
- Last week, we asked you to give us your spoiler
free reviews of the first two episodes of "The Mandalorian,"
and there were so many fun responses.
It was hard to choose just a few.
- DJ Strong took a page from our official playbook and wrote,
"did you see the-- and then the-- who is--
ooh."
Now, you know what it's like to live our lives.
- Scott S. sent in a picture of his son's non-spoiler
review of two thumbs up.
- And I think the perfect review to end on
is from Samuel Stevens who tweeted, "it is awesome.
I have spoken."
- Definitely going to be working "I have spoken"
into my everyday conversations.
- You already do.
- And with that, it's time to end the episode.
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- Thanks for watching, and may the force be with you.
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Who knows where we could be out in the world?
[BEEP] It could be anywhere, really.
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- Like Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Walt Disney World?
[BEEP] It's possible.
- I'm not the one who leaked it. [BEEP]
- One an done.
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