3. Did You Know: Luke Skywalker might have been a very different character if George Lucas had followed his original plans? Originally, Lucas wanted Luke, Aunt Baru and Uncle Owen to be midgets. Suave, handsome Han Solo might not have been so debonair had Lucas gone with his original instinct to portray Solo as a big green monster with gills and no nose. But, then Lucas decided to make Han Solo African American. He later nixed that idea, and Harrison Ford earned the role. Ford won out over some stiff, well-known competition including Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell and Christopher Walken. Lucas preferred to have a lesser-known actor than one with name recognition. Two decades later he would opt for name recognition when casting Liam Neeson as Qui Gon Jinn in the Phantom Menace and Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu in The Attack of the Clones.
72. Ouch, did you know? Mark Hamill was lucky he didn’t give himself a concussion in The Empire Strikes Back? Remember the scene where he was talking with Yoda in his hut, and Luke stood up and hit his head on the very low roof? That one shot took sixteen takes, meaning Hamill had to hit his head 16 painful times.
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