47. Quick: who “talked” for Chewbacca? Answer: A brown bear! The sound crew found the perfect brown bear at the San Diego Zoo and began recording his “talk.” They recorded him in all of his moods: happy and sad, hungry and full. According to Chewbacca actor Peter Meyhew, some of Chewbacca’s sounds were also that of a dog. However, the majority of Chewbacca’s lines are courtesy of a brown bear in Southern California.
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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