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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.
85. Did You Know: While he may not have been thrilled to be starring in Star Wars, Alec Guinness took his role quite seriously? Prior to filming his first scene, he thought his robe looked too clean to be living on the dusty planet of Tatooine. So, he lied down on the dirty ground, rolled around, got up and was ready to shoot, dirty robe and all.
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