Wayne Pygram poses in his special make-up visage as the ambitious Captain Tarkin, for a memorable walk-on appearance as the iconic character at the very end of EPISODE III. This further trilogies-binding idea was one incorporated quite late during the production process.
EPISODE III's top make-up creator Dave Elsey recalled to STARLOG magazine in 2006:
“This was a big movie and I wanted it to be
as good as possible (with regards to the movies make up and aliens). I knew
there was some disappointment with the other prequels, and I didn’t want that
to be the case with this one-certainly not in my department.”
“When I read the script, I realized that
this was the movie everyone had been waiting for. It was going to shock and
surprise a few people, so I wanted everything to be beautiful.”
“There were things going on behind the
scenes that Wayne (Pygram, playing the cameo of Grand Moff Tarkin) didn’t know
about, including me having a crisis because I suddenly realized that I was
re-creating in make-up, to some extent, a very good friend of Christopher Lee.
I started to panic about what Christopher would think of it and what would
happen if they met in a corridor. The whole thing began to freak me out, and it
became this big thing that spiraled off in directions that I had never, ever
contemplated when I first suggested it. But I’m happy with what ended up in the
movie.
“We were shooting the London portion of
SITH, and I was in the make up room with Ian McDiarmid. To pass the time we
would listen to LAUREL AND HARDY or put on a dvd. This one morning, Ian and I
were watching SHERLOCK HOLMES with Peter Cushing. So there I was making up the
Emperor-and I hear somebody come in behind us. I turned around, and it was
Christopher Lee. Here were Peter Cushing, Ian McDiarmid, and Christopher Lee,
and I was standing there thinking, “Is there anybody with a camera? I was geeking
out!”
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