Peter Mayhew
Peter Mayhew
Peter Mayhew is an English actor of American citizenship and previously a hospital orderly. Mayhew was born in Barnes, south west London and now resides in Granbury, Texas. He is 7 feet 3 inchestall and best known for playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series, but has also appeared in other films. He has written two books. Mayhew is now active in Star Wars communities...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 May 1944
CityLondon, England
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When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
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This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.
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They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.
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I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
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After a while, the character sort of took over.
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When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
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George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.
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A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.
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I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.
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Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
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I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
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George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
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With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.
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With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.