Chewbacca himself, Joonas Suotamo is here!
He’s right there!
Are you sure I’m in frame?
Yes, we’re sure you’re in frame.
Don’t tell us how to do our jobs, dude.
We do this every week, man!
[Chewbacca sound]
This is The Star Wars Show!
From the Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco, here’s your hosts, Andi and Anthony!
Hello and welcome to The Star Wars Show, a show whose ceiling needed to be temporarily
raised to accommodate a guest.
Yeah, see we’re both kind of ewok height.
Less than wookiee height.
But now we’re now equipped to handle all sorts of giant humans in here.
Yeah or animals.
Yeah, there’s nothing in the rulebook that says a giraffe can’t be on The Star Wars Show.
Ooooh, we have a rulebook now?
Yeah, it’s the Air Bud rulebook.
And there’s nothing that says a dog can’t play basketball and a giraffe can’t host a Star Wars Show.
Let’s go to the news.
On Monday, Star Wars: Forces of Destiny returned with 8 brand new shorts.
The new shorts feature stories from every era, and include the voices of Mark Hamill,
Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Lupita Nyong’o, Kelly Marie Tran, Tiya Sicar, Ashley Eckstein,
Vanessa Marshall and more…
...go on without me.
You can watch the new series of shorts right now on YouTube.com/Disney or check them all
out back-to-back-to-back on The Disney Channel this Sunday at 9:50pm eastern and pacific.
I don’t know where I left my inhaler.
Speaking of Disney, if you were hyped for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge after seeing the
drone footage on the Disney Parks channel, you should probably get similarly hyped for
an upcoming event at Disneyland.
On May 3rd, Disneyland will be throwing a brand new version of it’s Disneyland After
Dark series of events with a Star Wars themed event called, Star Wars Nite.
That’s Nite, N-I-T-E.
There’s no G or H because it’s cool, it’s retro.
Yeah.
So, spelling aside, the park will be filled with new and returning Star Wars experiences
like “March of the First Order” where Phasma leads a squad of First Order Stormtroopers
through Tomorrowland, as well as Rey debuting in the Star Wars Launch Bay, other photo ops,
and Star Wars themed food and decorations.
Oh, and Hyperspace Mountain, the Star Wars themed overlay for Space Mountain is returning
for Star Wars Nite and throughout the month of May.
We rode that, nine times in a row!
Tickets are on sale for Disneyland Resort Passholders on March 27th, with general public
sales following on March 29th.
Additionally, tickets for Star Wars Galactic Nights, the May 27th after-hours event at
Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando are on sale right now.
For more information and tickets check out disneyland.com or disneyworld.com/galacticnights
If you’re looking for some musical accompaniment for your pending May the 4th celebrations,
you’ll be pleased to learn that the first 6 Original Motion Picture soundtracks for
the Star Wars saga will be re-released on May 4th.
The John Williams composed scores have all been remastered and feature new artwork and
a collectible mini-poster.
More details can be found right now on StarWars.com.
GDC, or the Game Developers Conference for those not hip to acronyms is currently underway in San Francisco.
I always say that you’re very hip to acronyms.
Thank you!
And Epic Games, in collaboration with ILMxLAB and Nvidia revealed a real-time ray tracing
demo featuring a couple of sassy First Order troopers and Captain Phasma…and all of it
is 100% CG rendered in real-time in Unreal Engine 4.
In English that means it looks really, really awesome, check it out.
You’re watching The Star Wars Show!
[Mouse Droid beeps]
[Button clicking]
What’s the story with all the elevators lately?
I heard Kylo Ren destroyed the one over in D-sector.
If you ask me, who’s ever in charge of this place should be transferred to Hoth.
[Imperial March elevator music]
You think she heard us?
Yeah, I think she heard us.
At least we blend in for once.
[Porg sound]
Not only is Joonas Suotamo here, but we are wearing matching sweaters for the occasion.
How about that?
Thank you for coming.
Thank you so much for having me.
Of course! Of course!
This has got to be exciting.
We are getting very close to Solo now.
Yeah, I can’t wait.
It’s, uh, it’s coming so quickly and it couldn't come soon enough for me.
You’re an old hat at this now though.
This is three times now.
You’re just like, oh, another Star War, right?
Yeah.
[Laughing]
Yeah, I’ve been in three Star Wars films now but I gotta say I never, ever get tired of it.
It’s been magnificent ride and I can’t wait for this one.
You obviously started with The Force Awakens, working very closely with Peter Mayhew.
And I have to wonder, when you’re working with someone who has played the character
for so long and originated the character, was there anything Peter told you when you
started playing Chewbacca that you were like, “oh, I never thought of that”
or “I never saw Chewbacca that way”.
We had a week’s worth of wookiee bootcamp, where we went over all of these movements.
All I want is to do is to go to wookiee bootcamp!
Yep, and you will!
I assure you.
But yeah, we went over how Chewbacca moves and what’s his outlook on life and his best childhood memories.
[Laughing]
It’s just a scrapbook.
Or did we?
[Laughing]
And, yeah, it was really helpful for me to learn from his perspective what it was.
And he was so good about it.
Never met a more gracious man.
Yeah.
To give me this gift.
This movie kind of throws yet another curve-ball at you because now we are going back to sort
of the beginning of this whole story.
Yeah, I went into it with fresh eyes and it was so fulfilling to get to see how this story got its start.
And to see how Alden embraced becoming Han Solo.
Which he was great in it.
I got to tell you it was a lot of fun because you had to ask yourself a lot of questions.
How does this thing get its start?
What are the relationships and the dynamics when they meet each other and what happens?
For that, I’m sorry I can’t tell you any more.
[Laughing]
But yeah, to me, Chewie has always been a task oriented character.
You know, he doesn't carry any ego, he doesn't let that define him.
He’s very loyal to his friends and that shows in his actions.
Really I want to take you through the wookiee things.
How the wookiee bootcamp works.
Sure, I’ve got a week.
You have the time?
I’ll head to Finland and we’ll do this together or oh, we’ll just do it now.
That’s fine.
We’ll just do it now.
Yeah, yeah.
So, first of all,
wookiees have very good posture.
So you gotta bring…
I’m already out.
Yeah?
[Laughing]
And then you gotta, really, uh…
I’m already seeing it.
Like, its so crazy, I’m already seeing it like the way you carry your head.
Yeah.
And then you gotta relax your arms.
Okay.
Your dexterity is not your defining thing.
So you just gotta smack everything.
You know, smack those buttons on the Millennium Falcon.
Yeah.
But relax your arm.
And do it… yup!
And you’re looking.
Your necks kind of stiff because you are a wookiee.
Yeah.
And then you gotta look around, you gotta turn your whole torso.
So I’m trying not to turn my neck.
After you’ve done this for two weeks then you incorporate voices into it.
So you’re…
[Wookiee noises]
[Wookiee noises] I’ll drink this coffee.
[Laughing]
So wait, so as part of getting into character.
Yeah.
You were saying normal things in a Chewbacca voice.
This is...
Like around the house.
This is how I prepare, man.
How long did you do that and what did your family think?
Well, they’ve always thought I was crazy.
[Laughing]
So there wasn't much of a leap.
I call that “wookiee-english” and I sometimes do that on set.
I don't want to just speak with my normal voice.
Right.
With Alden I was often speaking “wookiee-english”.
And I was…
[In wookiee-english] How are you?
Well, Joonas, thank you so much for coming by, man.
I am so excited.
Right around the corner now.
May 25th.
We will see you there, man.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for coming by.
Thanks for having me.
[Porg noise]
Last week we asked you to show us your BB8 impressions and you did not disappoint.
Fernando gave us the infamous BB8 fire salute,
Beau beeped behind a toy,
and Chandler McCormack sent in a video of his dead on impression.
But the clear front runner for cutest BB-Fake was @SamiMiniCosplay or BB-SK8 as we know
her at conventions getting captured in nets, peeking out from behind a wall, being trailed
by her mother dressed as Brian Herring,
YEAH!
and even trading in her skates for a mermaids tail.
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Thanks for watching, and may the Force be with you.
Pew.
Pew, pew, pew, pew.
Blah.
Returnded.
This is what you get for pushing us too hard!
Can’t you see, she’s given all she has!
Can’t you ever just be happy?!