R2D2, AKA Kenny Baker, Sick
April 10, 2008
Star Wars veteran Kenny Baker, who played the lovable dustbin-shaped robot R2-D2 in all six of the classic science-fiction films, has been rushed to hospital. The 73-year-old actor from Preston, Lancashire, was taken seriously ill on a return flight to England after holidaying in the United States.
Via Telegraph
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“For motion picture miniatures and production miniatures, I’ve always told people to get a good background in photography first. The most important thing is what you see with your eye. Movies are a lot different from reality. This is because you’ve isolated the viewer’s eye to a certain spot—you can’t look anywhere else. If you’re a photographer, you get the idea of what you need to do by analyzing what it is that needs to be set and where it is and how much detail it should have. All the best people who ever worked for me were first good with the eye.”
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