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22. Did You Know: Kenny Baker, who played the affable R2D2, only took the role because the esteemed actor Alec Guinness was in the film? "I thought if Alec Guinness is in it, he knows more than I do about filming, that's for sure. It must be a decent film otherwise he wouldn't be in it,” Baker told the BBC in an interview about the late Guinness, shortly after his death in 2000. Baker appeared in all three of the original Star Wars films, and still reaps benefits from it today.
74. What character does Kenny Baker play, in addition to R2D2, in The Return of the Jedi? Answer: Baker, who plays R2D2 in all six films, also plays an Ewok named Paploo. Paploo’s heroic actions were stunted, however, after Baker came down with a case of food poisoning. So, Wicket—played by Warwick Davis—was the Ewok hero of the scene when he found an unconscious Princess Leia who would then share her food with him.
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