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00:00From many a moment you didn't realize was entirely made up on the spot, or not as it later became
00:06known,
00:06to mind-boggling mistakes leading to an entire feature being redubbed.
00:11It's time you discover the secrets every other Star Wars diehard has already had their minds utterly blown by.
00:18Gareth here from WhatCultureStarWars and here are 10 Star Wars Secrets Everyone Knows But You.
00:2410. Many A Celebrity Cameo You Missed
00:27It has become an adventure in its own right, unpacking precisely which well-known stars of stage and screen
00:33have managed to wiggle their way into the various space-aged locales seen in whatever latest slice of Star Wars
00:39goodness is being pumped onto our screens.
00:42Most recently, Zach Braff's unexpected cameo, whilst buried deep in prosthetics as the double-crossing Freck in Disney Plus' Obi
00:49-Wan Kenobi,
00:50acted as the latest well-known celeb getting in on the Skywalker Saga action.
00:54But he merely joins the likes of Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing slow and low,
00:58Tom Hardy and Daniel Craig rocking up as Stormtroopers,
01:01and Simon Pegg as Unkar Plut, to seriously name but a few.
01:05In making a subtle mark on a series, each of the stars clearly hold very dear to their hearts.
01:11Said cameos aren't strictly confined to famous actors either,
01:15with music sensations like Ed Sheeran and Nick Godrich,
01:18both appearing in Rise of Skywalker at various points too.
01:219. Ewan McGregor Hasn't Always Been a Huge Fan of the Star Wars Experience
01:26Time has a way of healing all wounds,
01:29and luckily it found a way to help Ewan McGregor recover from his prequel-inflicted ones,
01:33just in time for him to rediscover his Obi-Wan Kenobi mojo for Disney Plus.
01:38Yet while McGregor has been quick to note how refreshing it's been in more recent times
01:42to come into contact with the younger folks they made the prequel films for,
01:45The Scottish star hasn't always been a huge admirer of the all-round Star Wars experience
01:50he's found himself at the centre of.
01:52Claiming that he'd not actually come into contact with any genuine fans of the galaxy
01:57far, far away for the most part back in 2014,
02:00McGregor would claim,
02:01The people I meet are the F-ers who want me to sign Star Wars photos,
02:05so they can sell them on the internet,
02:06or the people at premieres who are crushing children against barriers
02:10to get me to sign their F-ing picture of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
02:13They're not fans, they're parasitical lowlifes and F-ing W-ers.
02:17Thankfully, those kids who were likely crushed against said barriers
02:20found a way to bring Ewan back to the light side in the end.
02:238. Return of the Jedi's Fake Production Title Helped the Shoot
02:27It's become pretty standard practice in this day and age
02:30to disguise the filming of one of the hottest incoming features
02:33the movie business has to offer
02:34with the gifting of a fake production name to said project.
02:38See Avengers Infinity War and Endgame's codename of Mary Lou, for example.
02:42But some three decades or so before Robert Downey Jr. and co. were going under the radar,
02:47the folks trying to bring the eagerly awaited original trilogy,
02:50including Return of the Jedi,
02:51opted to head down the secret title route
02:54to ensure the studio wouldn't be priced out of using certain locations
02:57just because there was an eye-catching Star Wars feature coming to town.
03:01Blue Harvest was the title eventually landed on,
03:04with said fake feature having the backstory of being an incoming horror flick,
03:08with the artificial tagline of Horror Beyond Imagination.
03:11This also helped keep unwanted attention from the general public to a minimum
03:15when shooting on location,
03:17with next to nobody giving a damn about a title
03:19that would soon go on to become the catalyst
03:21for a family guy corner of the galaxy in its own right.
03:24Number 7.
03:24Han Solo's I Know Wasn't Completely Improvised in the Moment
03:28For the longest time, it was largely believed that,
03:31being the lovable maverick fans knew him to be,
03:33Harrison Ford had decided to cheekily go off script in the heat of the moment,
03:37with Han Solo's utterance to his beloved Princess Leia of I Know
03:41on the back of her declaration of love towards the smuggler.
03:44In actual fact, though, said line, while not in the original script,
03:47wasn't actually entirely improvised on the fly by Ford there and then.
03:51Thanks to recordings from the set of The Empire Strikes Back now being made available to dive into,
03:56and Vulture later providing confirmation on the matter,
03:59it was later revealed that the actor actually discussed replacing the previously planned response
04:03of Just Remember That Cause I'll Be Back,
04:05with director Irving Kirshner on set.
04:07Then, after some typical Ford persuasion tactics that consisted of him feeling,
04:11I Know better fit the sequence, and Solo in general,
04:14Kirshner eventually granted Ford this request,
04:17and an instantly iconic one-liner was emphatically born.
04:20Just with a little prior planning first.
04:226. How Much Did The Galaxy's Feature Players Make?
04:26It certainly pays to be a part of one of the biggest pop culture franchises
04:29to have ever existed in this particular galaxy, but just how much?
04:33Well, to begin with, Harrison Ford was said to have pocketed a cool $10,000
04:37for his work as Han Solo in A New Hope,
04:39with the likes of Mark Hamill and Sir Alec Guinness being said to have come away
04:42with $650,000 and $3.3 million respectively for said first outing.
04:49Carrie Fisher's salary wasn't officially disclosed, however,
04:52though it's been reported that she earned a quarter of a percent of the flick's total profits,
04:56which is not too shabby.
04:58Jumping into prequel territory,
05:00Hugh McGregor reportedly earned $7 million for appearing in Revenge of the Sith alone,
05:04with the Scottish star likely earning a pretty penny from his new spin-off show too.
05:09Rounding out the pay packets,
05:10newcomers Daisy Ridley and John Boyega were both able to land between $100,000 to $300,000
05:16for their work on The Force Awakens,
05:18with said salary no doubt rising for the subsequent entries,
05:21which is something that can probably apply to the rest of the people on this list.
05:24And the likes of Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver,
05:26being slightly more high-profile names at the time,
05:28were able to secure mid-to-high six-figure deals
05:31upon making their Star Wars bows in the same flick.
05:33So simply put, they got paid!
05:365. Who Needs a Script
05:38Despite the aforementioned iconic delivery of I Know not actually coming out of nowhere,
05:43that's not to say this galaxy far, far away hasn't played host
05:46to its fair share of previously unexpected and unscripted beats over the decades.
05:50Proving that sometimes the most charming Star Wars utterances
05:54have been known to come in the heat of a moment,
05:56Chirut Imwe actor Donnie Yen would admit that his declaring of
05:59Are you kidding me? I'm blind!
06:00Upon having his head bagged in Rogue One,
06:02was completely made up by the actor on the day of shooting.
06:05Mark Ammo was also not exactly shy about adding the odd bit of dialogue or action
06:10into a scene should he feel the urge,
06:12with his A New Hope line of I can't see a thing in this helmet,
06:15and kissing of Carrie Fisher's head during their exchange in The Last Jedi,
06:18both not being in the script before the director called action.
06:214. Harrison Ford Soared Up the Millennium Falcon
06:24Before he became known for playing perhaps the single most recognisable smuggler in the galaxy,
06:29you may be aware of the fact that Harrison Ford was actually very much immersed in the field of carpentry.
06:34However, coming equipped with the ability to master all things wooden isn't always a great thing,
06:39when you find yourself on the set of an incoming blockbuster, that is,
06:42as Mark Hamill would hilariously recall to Empire.
06:45Apparently, on one particularly stressful day,
06:48Ford took to literally sawing his beloved Millennium Falcon to bits,
06:52on the back of production on an original trilogy flick, leaving him rather frustrated.
06:56As Hamill would explain,
06:58people were coming up to me going,
06:59you've got to stop Harrison, he's sawing up the Falcon.
07:02It was made of wood and he just took a saw to it, I love Harrison.
07:05In that same conversation, the Luke Skywalker actor would also recount a tale of Ford jigging his way
07:10into his dressing room to the sound of Andrea True Connections more, more, more.
07:14Only to completely no-sell the antics the minute someone arrived,
07:17at Hamill's door.
07:18Give us more, more, more of this Ford, please.
07:213. What Goes Into Green Milk
07:24Despite sitting as perhaps one of the most jarring scenes ever committed to the Skywalker saga as a whole,
07:29you'd be lying if you said you weren't even just a little bit curious as to what in the world
07:33the recently harvested green milk Luke Skywalker was seen consuming in The Last Jedi tasted like.
07:39Well, wonder no more, as Mark Hamill himself eventually shed some light
07:42as to what Tala Siren green milk actually consisted and tasted of via his Twitter account.
07:48As it goes, if you're a fan of regular coconut water, then are you in for a treat the next
07:52time you squeeze the tea
07:53of a Tala Siren chilling by the Acto water?
07:56And in order to give the liquid its unmistakable green aesthetic, Hamill would also note how this effect
08:01was actually remarkably added into the scene in post-production.
08:05So there you have it, you can rest easy knowing said unsettling scene isn't as entirely disturbing
08:09as you previously thought.
08:11Still pretty weird though, right?
08:122. All of Attack of the Clones Was Redubbed
08:15For years, the vast majority of Star Wars fans have often lumped George Lucas' seemingly soulless
08:20Attack of the Clones near the bottom of many a rankings list when it comes to the Skywalker saga.
08:25Now sure, there are some admitted highlights in the form of some particularly compelling
08:29lightsaber duels, battleground skirmishes, and staggering CGI.
08:33But the entire endeavour often feels weighed down by dialogue that feels entirely unnatural
08:38and disconnected from the living beings actually delivering the words.
08:41Well, as recently revealed by Obi-Wan Kenobi actor Ewan McGregor, the fact the entire film
08:46was said to have been redubbed likely didn't help Episode 2 when it came to its routinely
08:51clunky and lifeless verbal exchanges.
08:53As McGregor would note a slash film, the cutting-edge cameras used for this groundbreaking
08:57prequel entry were actually rather noisy, with the actor admitting it was so noisy and when
09:02in post-production they realised at the end that the noise they made was exactly the
09:06frequency of the human voice.
09:08So we had to ADR every single line of Episode 2.
09:11None of the original dialogue made it through because of that, because the cameras were like
09:15so new.
09:16So it turns out Hayden Christensen was forced to complain about San both on location and
09:20within a recording booth later down the road.
09:22Poor soul.
09:24Number 1.
09:24Finn's familiar Stormtrooper number.
09:26I'm finishing off with a rather satisfying secret hiding in plain sight that went completely
09:31overlooked by the vast majority of folks who filed into cinema screens for the record-breaking
09:35return of all things Star Wars in 2015.
09:38Bursting onto the Force Awakens scene like a Stormtrooper possessed, John Boyega's Finn,
09:42aka FN-2187, instantly captured fans' attention from the second he was spotted questioning his
09:47allegiances to the big bad First Order early on in J.J. Abrams' flick.
09:51However, what most weren't actually quick to spot upon taking an interest in Boyega's
09:55troubled trooper was the fact that his original First Order title before being charmingly rechristened
10:00by Poe Dameron was actually a callback to a particularly adored princess.
10:05Jumping all the way back to 1977, a new hope saw Carrie Fisher's lair being held captive
10:10on the Death Star in cell number, you guessed it, 2187.
10:13And this initial reference was actually in odd to a short film called 2187 by Arthur Lipset,
10:19which actually inspired George Lucas to create the feature THX-1138 and the concept of the
10:24Force as a whole.
10:25In short, 2187 is a rather significant number in this corner of the galaxy.
10:31And that's our list!
10:32Know of any other Star Wars secrets that everybody knows, but you, even though you now know these,
10:36but do you know any more that other people don't know?
10:38Then let me know in the comments section right down below.
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10:48articles, we got more editorials and Star Wars stuff getting thrown at your face.
10:52I've been Gareth from WhatCulture Star Wars.
10:54Thank you as always for clicking on this video today.
10:56May the Force be with you and I hope to see you very, very soon.
10:59Bye-bye!
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