BEHIND THE SCENES - NO DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!

When Jimmy Smits was announced as being cast as Bail Organa-adopted father to be in the STAR WARS Prequels with EPISODE II and III, I was very happy with the news. In my eyes and mind I saw him perfectly inhabiting the part-I imagined someone dark haired with a beard, slightly Mediterranean in appearance-suave but someone who looked like he was very intelligent and could be of strong social standing, tough but with nobility-and Smits certainly fit the bill in pretty much all those qualifications. In my opinion, Smits has become a very good actor in the last ten years-especially as hes gotten older, and more experienced. Bar his great performances in the Prequels (if still too underused for my liking), his acting is also worth checking out in Season Three of the TV series DEXTER, and in the final two seasons of the superb political drama, THE WEST WING.

Here's a great pic- a deleted scene which was cut for time reasons-from EPISODE III- showing Organa and his Alderaanian Royal/political attendants returned back to Coruscant where, accompanied by ORDER 66 Jedi Survivors Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda, they are stopped by security guards at the Senate landing bay-you'll have to imagine the background because it was only filmed against green screen, and, as of yet, has not been restored as a deleted scene to any DVD or Blu-ray releases.