Congratulations to Camille Manet who won the Build My Droid contest from Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Force For Change initiative and FIRST, getting to see her droid named KP-1 come to life in part V of the Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi event series.
The 25-year-old, hailing from Paris, France, entered and won the Build My Droid contest from Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Force For Change initiative and FIRST, whose goal is to inspire the next generation of heroes and innovators in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM), and creative arts. Her entry was KP-1: a droid that looked very Star Wars but new at the same time, and was filled with features and personality. Build My Droid offered contestants the chance to see their droid brought to life in a future Star Wars project; little did Camille know at the time that that would be Obi-Wan Kenobi, now streaming on Disney+. “Obi-Wan was my favorite character as a kid and still is,” she tells StarWars.com. “I was actually really moved to learn that it would be in Obi-Wan Kenobi precisely because of that.”
Camille grew up with “the OGs,” as she calls them. She loved watching the original trilogy on home video, and has memories of seeing the prequels in the theater as a child. “We all used to play Star Wars on the playground,” she says. “We all had parts and mimicked the sounds!” The sequel trilogy awakened her fandom in recent years, leading into her eagerness to enter the Build My Droid contest.
Find out how KP-1 was brought to life by Lucasfilm for the series, as well as Camille talking to Lucasfilm art director Doug Chiang, who helped in putting some finishing touches on the droid for the screen at StarWars.com.
