The little Rodian friend to Anakin, Wald (Warwick Davis), poses alongside a fine collection of his alien buddies from the Boonta Eve Pod Race, in this fun posed image taken on location in Tunisia during the filming of EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE.
“I
felt flattered and honoured just to play that small role (of Wald the Rodian).
But George felt kind of bad that I was wearing a mask again, as he’d seen me do
all these things like WILLOW where I wasn’t wearing a mask. So George said,
“There’s another part where you can be a spectator in the Pod race,” and he put
in me in there, next to Watto.”
“While we were in Tunisia, there was one
day when I wasn’t doing anything, so I decided to go out to the set just to
watch what they were doing. George saw me and said “What are you doing?” I said,
“It’s my day off.” He then said, “I can’t have you sitting there doing nothing,
go and get something on and we’ll put you in a scene-but make sure you look
different!” I got a costume and hood and went into make-up and asked them to
make me look different. They put a beard on me and stuff and I ended up looking
like a nomad character. So I’m in that scene as well.”
“EPISODE I was a very technical film. A lot
of the time, you didn’t really get a sense of what we were doing because there
was so much missing during shooting. You had to rely on descriptions from the
director and possibly some storyboards to get a sense of what would be added by
the computer.”
WARWICK DAVIS- JEDI JOURNAL ISSUE 2.1- SPRING
2001
An interesting thing to note in this picture is that on the right you can see the Quarren who wears a costume reminiscent of Tessek from Return of the Jedi. In the film I think you can see him walk past the door whilst Qui-Gon is talking to Watto after the race.
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