While promoting is latest film
Kingsman: The Secret Service, actor Mark Hamill talked a little bit about the
level of security on the set of J.J. Abrams Star Wars: The Force Awakens and to
what degree some news agencies, paparazzi and fans go to get some shots of the
actors and sets.
" I’m surprised I can even
admit I’m in it! …I like being surprised. It’s a whole different era now. When
we made the original films, you had the odd reporter hanging around the studio
bribing people to give them stories. Now, I said to them, ‘Do I
really have to wear this robe and this hood that covers my entire head to go
from the trailer to the soundstage?’ They said, ‘Yeah, there’s drones.’ Seriously! There’s drones flying
over the studio trying to get pictures of whatever they can get pictures of.”
Hamill also revealed that while
not to the same extent they also had some issues while filming Star Wars:
Empire Strikes Back.
“We
had a little of that on ‘Empire Strikes Back,’” Hamill laughed. “We were up in
Finse, Norway and [someone] bribed a couple of emergency helicopter pilots that
were looking for a couple that were stranded while skiing to buzz-bomb our set
and take pictures. They appeared in the newspaper The Sun. They didn’t get
much. They had pictures of snowmobiles and they wrote ‘Strange, alien machinery
on the set of ‘Star Wars 2′!’ as they called it. It was crazy! It was just
snowmobiles with really identifiable logos on the side.”
Star
Wars: The Force Awakens opens on December 15, 2015
Source
- CS
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