At the LEGO UCS AT-AT launch at the LEGO Store in London’s Leicester Square we got to sit down for an exclusive interview with C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels and he spoke about the deleted scenes with Poe Dameron, Oscar Isaac, in The Rise of Skywalker.
During the interview we spoke about C-3PO’s role in the last Skywalker Saga film, The Rise of Skywalker, and he spoke about the many cut scenes, including those with Poe Dameron, Oscar Isaac.
One of the sadnesses is when you shoot a film of that type, there is a lot of stuff that is written, maybe it’s filmed, and then it is cut away because you can’t put everything in.
One of the casualties was for 3PO, but particularly in relation to Poe, Oscar Isaac, because he was so sweetly mean casually cruel. I used to be crying on set with Oscar’s performance, as we know if you saw the film, was even better before it was cut. And he has such “oh g-d, do we have to bring him along” sort of attitude and 3PO was very hurt. It made shooting such a delight, the whole thing was. Joy to shoot.
I look for the directors cut, or the 3PO cut.
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To hear the interview in full tune into the next RADIO 1138 podcast later this week, where we talk about his childhood toys, motion capture, if he remembered LEGO as a child, voicing C-3PO in the LEGO animated specials, and the first time he saw the AT-AT.
