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| Gary Kurtz and a second unit film close-up shots of C-3PO (Anthony Daniels in half-suit) attached to Peter Mayhew's Chewbacca as they race to the East Platform. |
Navigating the various Cloud City corridors, the race is on for our freed heroes - can they get to Boba Fett's ship and rescue Han before it can take off?
In a long Friday filming day wearing the yak hair costume under hot studio lights, and with the 50 pounds weight of the Threepio puppet atop/attached to him, Peter Mayhew would collapse doing a corridor hard right move during filming of the chase sequence, and be sent home by the producers for the rest of the afternoon. Though his stand-in would wear the costume for additional scenes shot later that day, Mayhew's unique height/body language /double jointed walk as Chewbacca meant that the non Mayhew footage seen in dailies was ultimately abandoned and reshot once the actor was back on set after the weekend.
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| Reunited with Artoo, Chewbacca barkingly urges the droid to catch-up. |
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| Peter Mayhew has to cool down in a filming break, with help from L-R: Brian Lofthouse (props), Barbara Richie (hair) and Rosemary Worth (costume assistant) holding the fan. |
