- 05/06/2025
You'll never look at The Mandalorian the same way again!
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00:00What if I told you that I held the power to change the way you look at certain scenes
00:05and moments from within the galaxy far far away forever?
00:09Would you choose to refrain from being exposed to the reality of what actually goes into
00:13becoming an Imperial Trooper?
00:15Or would you fully embrace the truth behind the various puppets, droids and aliens found
00:20occupying this much loved universe?
00:22If it is the former then turn your innocent padawan head away now.
00:27But if it's the latter then well this is where the fun begins.
00:31I'm Gareth from WhatCultureStarWars and here are 10 Star Wars moments impossible to watch
00:36the same way after this video.
00:3910.
00:40The Cast Were Forced To Act To Alan Tudyk's Groin
00:43Rogue One A Star Wars Story
00:45Arguably the most unanticipated source of Rogue One joy came in the form of Alan Tudyk's
00:50wisecracking towering Imperial KX series security droid by the name of K2SO.
00:56The reality behind what actually went into bringing this modified banter robot into being
01:00though is perhaps even funnier than the machine himself.
01:04In order to play the droid on set during his various moments appearing alongside pal Cassian
01:08Andor and the rest of the Rogue One crew, Tudyk needed to be placed on stilts whilst donning
01:13a rather tight CGI friendly costume.
01:16So this ultimately meant that the likes of Diego Luna and co were always forced to act with
01:20their co-star at a very specific height.
01:23And as Luna would explain a few years back when discussing Tudyk's return as K2SO in
01:28Andor, all involved were likely once again going to be made to act directly at the actor's
01:32balls throughout that shoot too.
01:35So next time you take in this epic double act, know that Luna regularly found himself
01:39in what he classed as a quite intimidating situation whenever K2SO was sharing the frame
01:44with him.
01:459.
01:46Kanari was only taught to the children, Andor
01:49Sticking with one of the greatest things to happen to the Star Wars galaxy in modern
01:52times, Disney Plus' Andor series also brought with it a new unique language in the form of
01:58Kanari.
01:59And as revealed by Marva andor legend herself Fiona Shaw, it turns out that none of the adults
02:04seen interacting with the children found on Kanari had a clue what the youngsters were
02:08talking about in the language, which was actually a fusion of Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian
02:13due to the fact that only the kids speaking it were taught Kanari.
02:17This forced the actors to depend on the body language and facial expressions given off by
02:21their young Kassa co-star during those flashback sequences, throwing Kassian's eventual adoptive
02:26mother into a similar scenario as the one viewers found themselves in, with the show opting to
02:31not use subtitles during these early Kanari moments.
02:35Knowing that Shaw's Marva and Gary Beedle's Clem also genuinely didn't understand what
02:39the spooked Kanari child was going on about, definitely adds another layer of authenticity
02:43to the already impressively grounded Tony Gilroy Rogue One prequel show.
02:488.
02:49Werner Herzog forgot he was acting with a puppet, The Mandalorian
02:53You'd be lying if he said you hadn't found yourself completely forgetting, even for just
02:57a brief second, that the lovable little green icon that is Grogu was actually little more
03:02than a ridiculously believable puppet at various points throughout the Mandalorian series.
03:07In the case of one of the stars of the first season of that Disney Plus hit though, the child
03:11puppet was so damn impressive that they actually regularly found themselves getting lost in the
03:16illusion to the point of actually treating Baby Yoda as if he was an actual living thing.
03:21In fact, director Debra Chow even went as far as to confess that she experienced one utterly
03:25bizarre moment on set, involving herself giving Werner Herzog some direction, only for the
03:30star who had clearly fallen in love with the baby, and perhaps even forgotten it wasn't
03:34actually, you know, alive, to start giving direction to his puppet co-star.
03:39This genuine commitment to believing in Grogu being as much a part of the living cast as
03:43the likes of Din Djarin and Co. undoubtedly changes the way you take in Herzog's mesmerising work
03:48as the client during that galaxy-gripping first season, it must be said.
03:52And he's still real to me, dammit!
03:54Number 7, Luke's last Leia kiss wasn't in the script, Episode 8, The Last Jedi.
04:00Luke Skywalker's emotional peck on his sister Leia Organa's head before his confrontation
04:04with Kylo Ren was up there as one of the sequel trilogy's most moving occurrences.
04:09But what you may not be aware of is the fact that this specific part of Mark Hamill and Carrie
04:13Fisher's moment together in Episode 3 wasn't actually a part of the scripted plan
04:18at all.
04:19Hamill would note on Twitter a little later down the road that this was an emotionally
04:22charged day on set, due to the fact that Luke knew he was saying goodbye forever.
04:27So in a truly touching moment, Hamill chose to land an unscripted and spontaneous kiss
04:32on Fisher's head, summarising his-slash-my-feelings in a way words could never have conveyed, as
04:37he put it.
04:38Talk about making an already heartbreaking sequence even harder to sit through without bawling
04:42like a baby, eh?
04:44Number 6, David Prowse's eye briefly makes a cameo, Episode 4, A New Hope.
04:49It's safe to say there's quite a lot going on as the first ever Star Wars adventure reaches
04:53its thrilling climax.
04:55With Luke and the rest of his Rebel Alliance mates attempting to blow up the Death Star, with
04:59one highly accurate shot down an exhaust port, as Darth Vader and a number of TIE fighters
05:04tried to keep the superweapons safe.
05:06So you'd be forgiven from completely missing one rather brief moment in the thick of the
05:10action that actually revealed a little more of the man under the mask of the iconic Big
05:14Bad than George Lucas and co were likely wanting to originally expose.
05:19As Luke closes in on completing his all-important mission, a quick shot of Vader looking up at
05:24a departing Wedge Antilles brings with it a cheeky glimpse of actor David Prowse's
05:28eye behind the usually hard-to-see-through red lens of his legendary mask.
05:33Whether it was Lucas' intention to subtly peer into the shell containing a fallen Anakin
05:37Skywalker for a second or not, once you spot the human eyeball lurking within during this
05:42blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot, it's very hard to unsee the Prowse staring back at you.
05:47Number 5, Carrie Fisher's dog makes a sort of secret cameo, Episode 8, The Last Jedi.
05:53One sequel trilogy cameo that even the most eagle-eyed fans likely would have struggled to catch
05:57during Episode 8, actually saw none other than the late great Carrie Fisher's own lovable
06:02pooch, Gary, get in on the action, well, sort of.
06:06Inspired by the Leia Organa star's own French bulldog, Space Gary was actually a chefy pet,
06:11also known as Augry, owned by Gatha Elberfay, a patron of Canto Bites Casino.
06:17The tribute to Fisher's dog was an animatronic puppet operated by Daisy Beatty, that was also
06:22attached to the costume of Elberfay worn by performer Paul Warren throughout the sequences
06:26on Cantonica.
06:28The Canto Bites sequence may not have been everyone's cup of blue milk, but at least
06:31it came acquits with an homage that's almost impossible not to adore once you catch it.
06:36Number 4, Mark Hamill's number sneaks into a scene, Episode 4, A New Hope.
06:40A young Mark Hamill clearly had a feeling that a decent number of folks were going to witness
06:45his performance as Luke Skywalker in what would eventually become known as A New Hope.
06:50So the actor had a cheeky idea while shooting the film's iconic trash compactor sequence.
06:55Early on, Hamill was under the impression that he'd be tasked with delivering a line
06:58to C-3PO involving a serial number in the scene, and decided that he'd sneak his own
07:03phone number into the moment so that it would be forever preserved on film.
07:07Only when it came time to shoot the sequence in question, the blocking of the scene meant
07:11that Harrison Ford had to let loose the line instead, bummer.
07:15After arguing over who would get the chance to say their own number on screen, the Han Solo
07:19star finally gave the big baby, as he put it, his wish, and declared marks digits, leading
07:24to Hamill letting out a laugh at just how childish he'd been acting up to that point.
07:29But that's still apparently very much the Luke Skywalker actor's number at the time,
07:33being blared out by Han after narrowly avoiding being squished to death.
07:37So that's something, eh?
07:38Number 3, Darth Sidious wielding two lightsabers is hinted at.
07:43Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith A few years before the animated hit series
07:47that was the Clone Wars burst onto the scene in 2008, Revenge of the Sith debuted the first
07:51look at Darth Sidious wielding his very own Sith lightsaber during a few duels with various
07:56Jedi Masters.
07:58After first trying to best Mace Windu in a one-on-one lightsaber fight and ultimately having
08:02his weapon knocked out of a window, Sidious once again whips out another trusty red blade
08:07during his eventual battle with Yoda later on in Episode 3.
08:11And while some initially assumed that Emperor Palpatine was perhaps hiding a decent supply
08:15of backups to call upon, should he unfortunately lose or break one of his trusty weapons, the
08:20canon truth behind his multiple lightsabers was revealed during that aforementioned animated
08:24show.
08:25During an earlier duel with Maul and Savage Opress in the Clone Wars, Sidious can actually be seen
08:30wielding both of his eventual Revenge of the Sith lightsabers at the same time, suggesting
08:36that his second blade used against his little green rifle was anything but a backup.
08:41Fans of the prequels may not have been given any real concrete information as to how Sidious
08:44was able to conjure up another weapon so quickly after his disarming at the hands of Windu.
08:49But those who immersed themselves in the Clone Wars were very much treated to a moment that
08:53changes the way you look at Palpatine's Revenge of the Sith weapons forever!
08:572.
08:58A TAPED UP STORM TROOPER – EPISODE 4 – A NEW HOPE
09:02The life of a stormtrooper can be a pretty tough and physical one at the best of times,
09:06and when in the thick of trying to capture the galaxy's favourite princess, a few bumps
09:10and scrapes are to be expected along the way.
09:13However, far from allowing a bit of armour damage to keep one particularly driven white
09:17armoured Imperial unit down, it appears a stormtrooper seen early on in A New Hope had
09:22an easily missable solution.
09:24If you look closely at one of the troops stood alongside Leia as she's captured by her eventually
09:28revealed father, Darth Vader, you'll spot that this terrible shot is actually keeping
09:32their gear together with a simple piece of white gaffer tape.
09:36In reality, this was likely just a cheeky quick fix the folks behind the first ever Star
09:40Wars picture were hoping would slip through the cracks in the finished product, and it
09:44did for a few decades there.
09:46But HD and 4K revisits to the galaxy far far away have ensured that even the smallest visual
09:52imperfections can now be easily spotted with just the push of a pause button.
09:56These glimpses into the reality behind what went into crafting this 1977 classic only add
10:01to the charm of Lucas' original trilogy starter though.
10:05More tape I say!
10:06Number 1 Pedro Pascal wasn't Mando for an entire episode, The Mandalorian.
10:11Quickly establishing himself as one of the new celebrated faces slash voices of the next
10:15generation of Star Wars tales, Pedro Pascal's work as Din Djarin during The Mandalorian soon
10:21helped cement that Disney Plus series as the best thing to happen to the franchise in years.
10:25And while there most definitely wouldn't be a Mandalorian series without the titular
10:29bounty hunter, there was actually an episode there when the show found a way to go on without the
10:34need for Pascal to even be on set.
10:36With the star of the show actually being too busy to appear in episode 4 of the first season
10:41known as Sanctuary, due to him rehearsing for King Lear on Broadway at the time, Bryce
10:45Dallas Howard later confirmed that she wasn't actually working with Pascal at any point in that chapter.
10:50This meant that Mando was brought to life on set through the physical work of stunt doubles
10:54Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder in the end, and Pascal simply voiced the character later
10:59down the road.
11:00The end result is unquestionably seamless, and very few would be quick to assume that Pedro
11:04was nowhere to be seen during the physical shooting of the fourth episode.
11:08But that is very much a physically Pascal-less Mando seen taking down an ATSD on Sorgen.
11:13And that's our list, know of any other Star Wars moments impossible to watch the same
11:18after you know one specific detail?
11:20Then please let us know all about them in the comments section right down below, and do
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11:34based on.
11:35I've been Gareth from WhatCulture Star Wars, may the force be with you as always, thanks
11:39for watching this video today, and hopefully I'll see your faces very very soon, bye bye!
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