Hayden's Audition Tape for Anakin and First Day on Set - Star Wars Lucas Files 2.2

Hey, what's going on everyone? Hope you're having a great day so far today. Today we're gonna go over the Attack of the Clones bonus disc. This is part two and I'm structuring them as like 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, which two would fall under episode two, 3.1, episode three, four, and so on and so forth. Before we get started, this is gonna be a fun video. Usually these are going to be edited, but I just wanted to go live with you guys. I didn't do this last night. So I was like, you know what, let me just interact with the community. Let's have some fun. Before we begin, a project that I worked on over a year ago called Chalk Warfare 4 has just released today and it's 16 minutes long. It's super fun. I'm going to show you guys my scene with Jamie Costa, and then you guys can go watch the rest if you want, and then we'll get started. So without further ado, here you go. Let's check it out. And there it is. Okay, let's begin. This is, we're starting off where we left off last time. So we left off on part four, which is Hayden Christensen. So let's get started. So this one's going to be much more interactive for chat. In this particular case, I was looking for somebody who was very boyish and young, but has sort of a James Dean, solemn edge to him. Annie. Anakin. Annie makes me sound like a little boy. You look at those eyes and there's just so much happening there. Hayden had all of the elements of the character. Don't try to grow up too fast. About a week after my test, not even, I was lying in bed and got the phone call that I got the part. I never would have expected to be here right now. This is Star Wars. It's really, really cool. This is my first time. Hayden's stepping into a huge part to play Anakin and to be the young Darth Vader. You know, they're liking me today. I was always the youngest ones. And I'm now not. So it's funny. The first day I had to take my lightsaber out on set. I didn't even realize what I was doing. And the first take I did, I was like, wow. I was like, oh no, you guys, you'll put that in later. Won't you? I don't want to be showing him how things are, because everyone has to find out for themselves. He's brilliant. I love him to death. He's a great kid. Anakin in this movie is a transitional character. He's going from the young Padawan learner to becoming aware of the fact there's more to him than that. He's always had a sense of longing for love in his life. Hayden's a wonderful actor. I'm really, really impressed by him, especially because he's very confident. He's a much more complex character than the surface belies. It's not really a mystery. Everyone knows that I'm going to the dark side. It's kind of like the Titanic sinking. Excuse me for just a moment. Well, for me, it's just heaps of fun to go in and get dressed up as a Jedi every day and put on the boots and get to wear the cloak occasionally. Great. He's got a fantastic mind. He understands exactly the part. Every stunt he's got on this movie, he'll do it. We have a double. We have a good double. Hayden's actually too good, and I'm not really doing very much of it. I mean, he's fearsome, the double, and, you know, he's made out of tough stuff. I was heavily involved in athletics and wanted to be a hockey player. I wanted to be a tennis player. It's Star Wars, you know? Why would you not want to be a part of every aspect that you could? I don't want anyone else on the screen trying to do my thing. I'll take a few bruises for the team. The stuntman in me, as much as it is my character, it's all coming from George's head. He is the definitive of how it should be played, so you have to pay attention. Well, Hayden is actually a very talented actor. He's very good and very professional. Works really hard. He shouldn't have gotten the hate that he got, man. It's just not right. It's extraordinary to think that he's so young. People just don't understand the character. I had no idea. You try to give flashes of darkness and flashes of just pure innocence, just to try to bring everything together. He was able to pull it off very well. It was a hard thing to do. Giving yourself to the Jedi means giving your whole life. Don't get that. It's cool, man. Yeah, a lot of people don't understand how much he actually put into the role in the sense that you can even see. I made a video about this. You can see with his cadence as Anakin, he tries to make sure that he sounds like James Earl Jones as Vader. So when he says things like, yes, my master. That's why he sounds so monotone, right? That's the whole point behind it. He knew what he was doing, but regular fans couldn't understand that. So they just give him a lot of hate for nothing. So let's go on the next one. Twinkle Beyond Pluto, extras fill out the Star Wars galaxy. And then after that, we'll continue on with that as well. After that one. Oh, here we go. In Star Wars, in any of the episodes that we're making, extras are extraordinarily important in defying the place that we're at. To, you know, have people understand that there's another world there. I don't know how we ended up here. And where finally are you from? Sydney. There are sequences in Star Wars like the Cantina where I think that's certainly my favorite sequence. And that's entirely made up of extras. And it turned out to be one of the best in the whole saga. Extras seem to have very high self-esteem, I think, because they're put through so much during the day. They're herded around like cattle. They don't do anything for hours at a time. So you have to really feel good about yourself. I'm a spaceman, but a very important spaceman. As an ordinary extra, I say you're not a star, but you're a twinkle beyond Pluto. Can we boogie? The response for Star Wars has been like no other production I've ever worked on. Because people know it and they love it and they're dedicated to it and they're fans. It's so different working on a project that has so much history. Why did you remember that one? Oh, because I didn't get the part. I've seen every Star Wars film in the first week it was out. And I just can't believe I'm here. Stroke of luck, really. The force was with us. I know. The reaction, particularly with younger people, when you just casually mention, oh, I've done a couple of days in Star Wars. Star Wars! I know, yes, yes, indeed. I'm getting ready for my part as an intergalactic backpacker. You're all normal pedestrians. An extra is someone who is in the background of the scene, who has no dialogue, but may have a little bit of business. You go in the direction I told you to go as I walked along the side. You're an animated body. An animated body, a screen filler. So, folks, just pick it up a bit. Just be a bit animated. Just because you're in space doesn't mean that you can't have fun. You'll see that this is actually all fogged up. So it's impossible to see out of any of this. But I mean, that's the fun of acting, really, isn't it? We actually don't need an acting ability. You're always going to be doing the same thing. What we need is a look. Basically, what we want to do is try and fit the deities of the particular extras into costumes which would suit their own little characters. You sort of can't just have a costume allotted for people because we're getting all different shapes and sizes. I can't see where he's moving the lightsabers. Jedis don't have to see. When you finish your schooling, you'll look like Ewan McGregor. Lots of facial hair, tall. Everybody falls for the strong, sunny type. That's you, right? Every creature and every extra that you see in each movie has a name, has a personality, has a backstory. They are some sort of being that has actually been given a life. There's one in episode two. His name is Kit Fisto. Just an extra, a guy. But all of a sudden, Mike put in his name and now there's the story there. Like, you want to know something about him. I love it. Shoot it. When this guy's on, I'm a totally different person. I'm female. We have a sequence in episode two where we're in a nightclub. We got a really good date for you. I fixed you up. Put your arm around him. There you go. It's a very classic western type of bar room scene where the doors fly open and the two gunslingers walk in. We needed about 150 extras. There had to be a certain look to them. I've never looked like this before. I have been airbrushed all over. It's a place that's in the lower depths of Coruscant, a place that we actually haven't really seen before. There is one thing worse than working with me. It's being an extra in a Star Wars movie. It's okay. And I would debate that. So when we come around to that second... And you have a great first assistant director who can move his extras around. Oh, it's fantastic. Everyone take a step to their right. There's two rules. First rule is I don't care what you do. I don't care where you go. I don't care if you need to buy a paper, go to the bathroom, whatever. But the second rule is you've got to tell me you're going to do it. You guys just stepped off set. What happened? Stand-ins are slightly higher in status than extras. Perhaps when you're standing in the queue at lunchtime, you can stand in front of someone who's an extra. We are indebted to you for your bravery, everyone. In episode one, there's a scene, a particularly beautiful, haunting, dramatic scene where there are two extras who I think basically defined what extra acting is all about. Congratulations on your election, Chancellor. That happens to be Ben Burtt and myself in this sequence. A classic example for anyone that anyone can be an extra. But they can do it a lot better than we did. Thank you, guys. I really appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you so much. It would have been so cool to be an extra on Star Wars, man. Just imagine. Be like, yeah, I was in the prequels. I was in the originals. What's going on with you guys? Whoa, 2,500 of you. Thank you so much for joining, guys. Let's go to number six. It's all magic. Visual effects wizardry starts on the set. And then after that, we'll go on to number seven, which will be a different panel. Charlie says, in honor of this video, thanks for making that video a few years back about Hayden. He did not deserve all that BS. Hey, you rock theory. Thanks, Charlie. I totally agree, man. If you haven't seen that video, go watch that video on why Hayden Christensen played Anakin perfectly. When I did Star Wars, the whole project was an exercise in reining myself in and designing a film to be able to get the maximum amount of strange environment and exciting spaceship action out of very, very little. I don't really have to rein myself in anymore. Welcome to episode two. I would say over half the sets are digitally created. That was great. It's in essence a digital movie so that ILM is really working on every single shot. In general, George doesn't limit his thinking to what he knows can be done with the technology. He always tries to set the bar a little higher. And it's up to us to try and figure out, well, can that actually be executed? You know, film is a very collaborative medium. The ILM group is just part of the team. And they're able to tell me what they can and can't do. You are the ones that has to deal with the overall picture. I'm, for the visual effects, acting as the DP. So I'm concerned primarily with the technical and aesthetic issues of putting the shots together. Rob is kind of the actors. George will direct Rob, and Rob will pass that on to his people. Top of the team's office. We are no longer safe under their protection. Perfect. OK, print the last one. Be sure that the animation department gets that piece. And that's how we do it. No matter what you do in motion picture or medium, it's an exercise in utilizing resources and technology. The sphere is always this object of mystery. People want to know what is it? What the hell are you doing? It's a way of sampling lighting in a particular location to see how the whole scene is illuminated. Whenever we're doing a digital character, we always do a block through with the voice actor and Ewan, in this case, so that they can get the timing and pacing and where their eye lines are. I don't care about the stinky eye lines. Who cares about eye lines? Then we take the voice actor away, and he has to do the scene, pantomimes the scene. The guy who's creating that character will create their responses of how you respond to their responses that aren't there. It's a nightmare. That'll do nicely. As we're setting up to shoot a shot, I try and project myself down the line. How are we going to actually execute this shot? Flash. The effects are the most difficult thing when it comes to movies, man. Later on, we need to shoot a matching element, and we can recreate that camera position. It's imperative that a matchmover from ILM be on set to take set measurements and to track markers. Without a matchmover, these track markers might not be in a shot, and it'll make it virtually impossible to recreate the camera move and to make a photorealistic environment. A day to shoot, and probably for these shots, four or five months in post. Once we get back to ILM, John and I will meet, and he and I'll just zip through the shots, and I'll say, okay, this shot's getting really close to animation, but I'm having some problems with getting the character to interact with this table. Can you help out there? So there's a lot of back and forth. I go to ILM every Tuesday and Thursday morning, and I go over the work they're doing. Locked out. Even I can't get past the security. I go over the computer, the characters or the specific shots that they're working on. The real breakthroughs, I think, with ILM were to take the strides and the inventions that have been created over the years and then try to streamline them and make them less expensive. You have no idea what some of these things can look like or some of these things will be. So you just kind of, you know, get out there and act like everything's normal. It's challenging because there's nothing there, but it's like theater in that way. You know, it's very demanding on the imagination. When we started doing Star Wars, it was very hard to get a spaceship to fly and pan with it. Now it's just, we don't even think about it, it's so easy. With the new digital technology and everything, I'm pretty much, whatever I can imagine, I can do. There are very, very few limits. And then now we're at the Mando and it's like you got screens encompassing everything, which more about that soon. All right, we're on the next one. Revenant to the next level. Sounds from a galaxy far, far away. Do you want that? Or do you guys want, should we just keep going in order? What do you guys feel like doing? Should we have jigsaw puzzle building model communities? And then of course, we'll go to deleted scenes. I don't know if we'll get through all that today, but whoops, what I just hit. Well, let's watch it. Boba Fett appears as a cartoon character. I think that's his first, first appearance. Just after 78, the holiday special. I am Boba Fett. I think a great deal of fans, 98% of fans. That's Boba Fett, man. Want to know more about him. I go up and four and five in that. And then I become a bounty hunter. Whoa. I didn't even get the jet packs. One of the great things about episode two is it really delivers on this mysterious and wonderful character, Boba Fett. And also someone who's equally mysterious. The character called Django Fett. It's more Morrison. I guess he's the original bounty hunter, man. Yeah. Because Boba Fett's like 11 years old in this one. Come back on Monday. Can you do that? Fly through asteroids? Fight? Shoot? Took him under my arm. Call me dad now while we're here. Okay, I'll call you son. You know, just so we get a bit of bonding going. We just got to use our imaginations. Actually, I think this is what fans have been waiting for ever since they saw Boba Fett in the Empire Strikes Back. Bounty hunters. And the very first day was a scene with all the bounty hunters. And really, all I was doing was just standing and looking at Darth Vader occasionally. I remember my youngest son saying, isn't it funny you put a bucket over your head, dad? And, you know, people think you're rather cool. It was very exciting because the first real science fiction film I'd done. Human, yes. Origin, unknown. Planet, unknown. He was quite a special character. It's the mystery behind this uniform. You need to see the film several times to think, why does he wear this death head on his epilept? They had little knee pads where I could fire darts with. They were Velcroed on. And by the end of the day, they'd obviously slipped around. So you'd have to keep shifting them. And if I walked, which I didn't do much of, they'd shoot across the room because the Velcro would snap off and fly. It wasn't easy. This is from Empire. And there's the whole set. So we're going original now. And his trousers are all up. So when we first got the photos from the fitting and we put it next to, you know, put them next to one another, you could see who it was meant to be. But also you could see it was a different character, which is quite cool. They used the Boba Fett costume for my costume as well. May the force be with you, bro. Can't wait to see him return, man. In Mando. It's going to be amazing. We've gone for this new kind of silver millennium. You're watching this like, it feels amazing. Reminds me of being a little kid when the prequels were... Mental of the Boba Fett reign, you know? God, you just feel the energy. What's my lines today? Do you have any dialogue? Draw your guns and you pow, pow, pow. The fight scene with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Space chase through asteroid planets. And they've got a bit much in the rain sometimes. Believe me, this is rain. This is real rain. Drop cameras. Wow. You know, while you're doing your action and your fight scenes... And the thing fogs up, I can't see anything. Oh, well, I'll just carry on like this. I can just see this blur coming down. Being a strong, virile Maori warrior from New Zealand, well, you've just got to deal with these elements and carry on. Thank goodness for those stunt doubles. Go to MC George, the director. Ask him about your motivation. I love Boba Fett. I mean, we get to spend a lot of time with him in this movie. We get to understand where he comes from. But we also understand that... We get to understand that his identity is forged in some of the most powerful events that take place in the whole Star Wars saga. But the biggest thing of all, he's pretty cool. May the force be with me. What the... He can't do that. It's awesome. It's even more powerful than what we see in Empire Strikes Back. I think people are going to be blown away, not only by the costume, but by the performance. And the whole overall story that takes place between Jango Fett and Boba Fett. Okay, which number did we hit? I can't even remember. We'll just go back. It's fine. Oh, we're at 10? Okay, so we got to go to 7. What's 11? Good to know. The Jedi Knights in action. Wait, no, that's... This is 10. Okay, we got to do 10 then. We have to do 10. We got to watch that. Yes, more behind-the-scenes content. Make sure you make stuff like this for future films. For your future films, so we can all look back and enjoy later on, man. Definitely. So I'm going to be hiring a few people for Episode 2 and 3, which will cover all behind-the-scenes stuff. And I have a ton, a ton, a ton of footage from Episode 1. I just haven't released it, but I might do that for joint members. I think that'll be fun. I'll release the little bits here and there. 3,000 viewers. Awesome, guys. Thanks for joining in. This whole video is going to be copyrighted, so it's totally fine. I just want to enjoy it, hang out with you all. And I didn't really want to edit, so... Yeah, whatever. Do it live. It's more fun this way, anyways. A few people highlight the talent of Hayden. He helped George bring Vader's past to life. I appreciate what you do. Keep it up. Awesome page. Dente, thank you for becoming a new member. Good morning from Western Australia. Good morning. Imagine if they had the tech we have today. Imagine if they had that for the originals. The fight scenes would have been completely different. Okay, let's do this one, then we'll go back to 7 and 8. Good to go. The Jedi Knights in action. I'm very excited for this. This is the heyday, the golden age of Jedi that exists in the world we have now. In episode 2. I've watched all these swashbuckling films all my life. You know, I was a huge Errol Flynn fan when I was a kid. And this seems to be the next step in the fencing age. I mean, Jedi, as I've always said before, they've chosen a sword in a time of, you know, laser guns, so they better be damn good with it. Good to G.O. All Jedi don't fight exactly alike. An elegant weapon. When we started, there was a particular style developed. It's a combination of samurai and western sword fighting. And when we did Phantom, we sort of progressed that style. Nick Gillard creates a unique fighting style for each of the Jedi, and how it sort of reveals a certain element of their personality. Other Jedis have other ones, but that's the one, isn't it? And it's mine. You have to distinguish between the characters. So you have to read the script a lot of times and understand the character. A lot of the aggression that I hold in my character is exemplified in my fighting style. You just, you understand the moves really well. It's tough. Anakin maybe loses control a little bit and some of the darkness emerges, whereas a Jedi normally would have to be much more in control of the situation. They're like marshals in the Old West. They're the keepers of the peace. They're given assignments to resolve conflicts. This Jedi walks by and ruins my action. With the ultimate threat and force if things are resolved. Anakin, he's much more youthful, and I think Obi-Wan Kenobi's slightly more sedate. He's much more confident now. He's 10 years or so past, I think. He's become the master, not the apprentice anymore. Obi-Wan, his fighting style is much more by the book, even though he's obviously very skilled. He's got extraordinary balance and hand-eye coordination. Yeah, it's a long process and not just them getting the moves, but them keeping the character. Getting the feet right and getting the steps so you can actually do it. It's a lot like dance choreography. Feet have to be right so that the strikes look correct. Trying to go much more classical. Some of the characters are a real master. Swordsmen better than anything we've seen so far. Excellent. Trying to figure out who we had to talk to about your light color, your lightsaber color. Oh, well, good guys are green and blue. Bad guys are red. That's just the way it works. Go purple left. You might get purple. That's cool, man. It would be a shame for me to participate in a film like this and never get to use my lightsaber. We've not seen Mace fight yet and we know that he's second only to Yoda. Good to G-O. I guess because I'm such a fan of Japanese samurai movies and I watched a lot of kendo fights and a lot of stuff, I'm doing pretty good at it. I was thinking about a style for him, but it's Sam Jackson style, you know, that he has so much style on his own. Since I'm supposedly the second baddest person in the universe, I'm pretty efficient. I don't do a lot of fancy sword twirling or anything. I dispense people pretty quickly. Use as little energy as possible, but I'm pretty lethal, okay? Cool with that? This is the first time that we really get to see all the Jedi in action, which is an amazing sight. This is why I love these bonus takes. Are you using the force on the end there? Yeah, with him. Are you making him flop around like a dead fish? No. Is that you going backwards? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's his own thing. Yes. This is awesome, guys. I love this. This is so cool. Okay, let's go back to number seven, right? That's what we were on. The wardrobe. Oh, no, wait. That would be the next one, I guess. Revenant to the next level. Sounds from a galaxy far, far away. We'll just finish this whole thing today, okay? So in this stream, we're just going to finish the whole thing. All right, let's get to it. Imagine if they had the, yeah. Welcome, Zach. Thank you so much. Third man told you that they shot episode three scenes back when they filmed episode two. I remember these web documentaries so well. They got me through weight between episode two and three. Man, the weight. I remember the weights between two and three. Between one, two, and three. It was like three years each. It was a crazy long time. I think there's a great deal in the psychological effect of a movie that comes from the soundtrack. So for me, the sound is very, very important. I've always had the sound signer working on the picture from the very beginning. Ben Burtt created the sound for the laser sword that really affected how I approached the laser sword fight. Fantasy like Star Wars requires the complete fabrication of a complete sound world, from footsteps to exploding space stations. Ben's sounds, they're really unique. And he has just a great library of sound that he's worked with and great experience. The voice of General Grievous, by the way. The artistic development of sound. Matthew Wood worked on episode one, setting up the whole sound design workstation that I was to use. He was my mentor and teacher to get me started as I, Rip Van Winkle, woke up in the future and sound had gone from the Moviola analog audio to the Pro Tools and being digital. I provide him raw sound effects elements. We're revving it to the next level with the film. Let's do it with sound too. This is the only flying example of a Vickers Vimy in the world. This was the B-1 bomber of World War I. Ben has a huge amount of plane recordings. And a lot of those plane recordings have actually ended up as spacecraft in the Star Wars universe. Just wanted to get it. He knew it was something unique that didn't exist everywhere. I just have all the major parts of the movie in my mind and what we need to record and what elements I can provide for Ben. Pretty amazing, huh? I'll get a takeoff and landing. And then I also want just a couple of byes. So while I'm there, if you, you know, maybe just one or two, just like going by me and then a circle. Can we do that? You know, you're going over me so I can get the Doppler effect. It's totally unique. Geez, man. That's why it sounds like that. Anything unique, anything unique we can get in the Star Wars movie. Hey, are we in a good location? I want to get him like right when he's leaving the ground. The famous thing about this airplane, it's the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop. The first airplane to fly from England to Australia. And the first airplane to fly from England to South Africa. It does have a really interesting sound. It's like a giant car. The best sounds are not things that you think of and imagine and go out and search for. It reminds me of Jango's ship, Slave 1. Sound is happening all the time. So just edited like... I actually know Obi-Wan's in that scene, I'd say, with the seismic charges. The basic things you always need to record, especially for the Star Wars movies are like, you need vehicles, you need pass-bys. Might be the base sound, might be Obi-Wan's ship. No one is really going to be able to identify it as a plane, especially after Ben gets done tweaking it out. The end result of the motion picture is a great combination of picture and sound working together to most effectively and dramatically tell the story. Yeah, that was perfect. That really, I got a really interesting sound out of there. Cool. So I think movies are the most artistic form of expression in the world because everyone comes in there with different backgrounds, like whatever it is, sound, artistry, writing, everything. And they all just mesh together and it's a beautiful product. Building model communities, should we do that one or should we do... Skip over to the wardrobe of Padme. What do we got here? Creating the action in the... Oh, I want to see that right now. We're in the middle of this giant execution arena where there's thousands and thousands of Geonosians cheering and screaming because they are... Geonosians. I'm never going to say Geonosian again. It's Geonosian now. An impossible situation with no means of escape. Well, the arena scene in the picture starts out as an execution and then it turns into a giant battle with Jedi. That turns into... A clone war. Real six, as we call it. There are only 100 Jedi available and most of them were at Jedi resorts where we go and rest. We had to call them out. There's 200 Jedi Knights who flooded into the arena fighting on the arena ground. To create that scene, we're filming each Jedi one at a time with two different cameras so we can actually take the part of that fight that we like and then we can actually composite them all together in one big fight where there'll be 100 of them all together in one shot. A lot of it is that, more than any other kind of movie, this depends on trust. And we don't quite know what's happening. Especially actors get very nervous. Especially when there's nothing to hang on to. And I don't even know everything that's going to be there until I actually start working on it. It really is like a giant sketchbook. Giving more of like a poetic, just general swath of, you know, what is the feeling, the mood, the lighting, color, palette, and the location. The whole world of Geonosis is a combination of a kind of organic design environment with a kind of tinge of industrial design. Through the notes and direction and George's sort of trust in us exploring things, literally in the doodle sketchbook phase, we can quickly leap from a verbal concept to these color abstracts. George really was into these termite-inspired towers as if, you know, they're great architects in the natural world. So by bringing in these tower elements, carving into the rocks, it shows an ancient society, a very insect-like and very primal. Poggle, something a little bit tougher than the average Geonosian. George presented them as a species that could just sort of disappear into the rock. These ideas provide an inspiration and a conversation point for our meetings with George. Once we've had those conversations about the Clone War, we're basically everything in the movie is covered. Yeah. And we're in it, in everything. There's nothing sort of sitting on the shore anymore. It was a giant arena where there was an execution, so it was very much, you know, like a Roman Coliseum in that guise of a spectator sport. We built this huge stadium. During the ground battle, we'll use this. It'll be photographed and then replicated over and over again to help create the Geonosian landscape. I think the camera move is going to start somewhere in here and use this corner as if the gunships have come out. They're coming around here. They're heading that way and they're kind of flying past this piece. So the camera will come across this way. Babs on the fence. A whole reel. The ability to be able to take anything that you can imagine and turn it into a completely photorealistic event where you can comp in any actor and it's seamless is really the dream that all of us have. It's his point of view. The camera will be right there. You see this edge. It's pretty tight then, right? Yeah, it's kind of sort of a weight shot. Yeah, okay. Shoot that, then we have a geography of what it is we're looking at in terms of backgrounds and whatnot. It's a giant exercise in having a vivid imagination and the effect of a thousand screaming termites. Yeah. That helps. We've got match moves that have come from the plates that they shot on live action. I can now key out the blue and then see what our characters look like when I'm first lining up the shot so that as we pan or tilt or slide across the background it's going to match exactly what the characters are doing. Now we get a lot of close-up shots and so we found that it would be faster if we just split the entire arena in half and then have one crew doing the opposite direction of the other crew and that way we can get more stuff into post faster and get those shots coming out. I think it's probably the largest action sequence we have ever tried to even contemplate well, much less achieve. I'm very, very excited about it. It is so big. Whether there'll be anything quite on this level in terms of a real six in the next film but it'll be more like Empire where it's mostly just personal rather than grandiose. That's what you said last time. Well, I said this is a love story and it's not a... Yeah, so there's going to be lots more visual effects this time because it's a love story. I lied, didn't I? It's so cool. George is like a master of filming those little models, hey? He's really good at that. So we got, I think, one more left here. One or two more, I think. Building model communities. We just did that one and we got Padme's left, right? We did that one. Yeah, we did that one. It's just Padme's. Did you know Padme's handmaidens were like actual assassins? They're like ninjas. They're great. In Star Wars, the first trilogy, Prince's latest costumes are very, very simplistic. They're designed to not call attention to themselves. The Empire has taken over. Fashion has gone out the window. Everybody wears gray or white in a world where evil sort of is in control of things. And in the second trilogy, the costumes are designed to call attention to themselves. So it's just the opposite. As I write the script, I work with a design group. I mean, this might be okay for Padme. And cut. Pretty much as I write scenes, I say, okay, I got a scene here. We're set. In a romantic location on a lake, and it's going to be a love scene, that kind of thing. So I need an outfit to go with that. As George sort of progressed with the script, he sort of realized more that he wanted to show a softer, sort of friendlier side to Padme. The other costumes in the first film really were about her being a queen. In episode one, she was a very formal figure and had to always be aware of her position. Last time, they were so incredibly gorgeous, but it's really cumbersome to wear. This one is much more about making her as beautiful as we possibly can. That's beautiful. And when Trish comes in, a lot of things get thrown up because she then takes those and tries to translate those into real cloth and movement on the body and everything. They specifically worked hard to make them as comfortable as possible, and I really got to enjoy wearing these gorgeous, gorgeous clothes. Okay, good. That's fantastic. Bring it around. Which one is, what is this for? This is packing in the apartment. Packing? You got it just like that to pack? Every day, I'm in a different outfit. Big chop. Natalie no longer plays the queen. She's now a senator, so the costumes are less regal and less formal and less stylized. Why don't we put a t-shirt on her? How's that? My costumes are a little bit more revealing this time, much more feminine, not as rigid. Just to be a more casual, softer figure this time. Now, this is P-19, which Padme wears when she goes on a picnic up to the shack fields with Hayden from the retreat island. You know, she is going to fall in love. The costume in the hills in the middle is really, really beautiful. It felt like a period piece as opposed to, you know, this futuristic piece, but it's very romantic and flowing. This has all been embroidered and we've laid on little pieces of roses onto the borders. Natalie Portman was the biggest crush. And then there's twists of colored ribbons and matching colors. Light, summery, but quite sort of fun. So she can run about the fields and the dress floats. And then sort of with the hair, I think we made it very Star Wars-y. That was great. We have a much more romantic story so that Padme's costumes are obviously more sultry in nature and, you know, revealing than pretty. There's one costume that George designed himself. And that was sort of the costume that, you know, I came on set and everyone was like, Oh, that was an interesting costume to wear. And it was really hard at the end of the day because the corset was so tight. I didn't know George designed that. That's so funny, dude. Yes. Yes, absolutely. As Dumbledore said, It is not the clothes that make us powerful. It is our choices. No, I didn't say that. I think we got all of them right. All 12? We're good? Yeah, a little bit out of order. But I think we got the gist of it. Guys, I would love to make this more of a live stream series. I think it'd be really fun. Let me turn regular chat back on so I can see what you guys are all saying. I hope you enjoyed it. After this, we're going to go to... Where are we going here? We could do documentaries. We could do featurettes. No, we just did. Do we do featurettes? No, we didn't do featurettes yet. I didn't do featurettes yet. Story, love, action. So, okay. So the next stream, we're going to cover these three. These are going to be longer, I think. They're going to be more... They're not going to be as clustered with different things. There's like garments and such, and let me see the story, and Hayden's audition tape and all that. But I feel like we're going to get a whole bunch of different things. And mind you, this is only episode two. This is just episode two bonus disc. We got episode one, three, four, five, and six left. So it's going to be a long process. It's going to be super fun. And I hope you guys are excited. We could do maybe like a schedule for them, where you can all tune in. So I'm thinking maybe, you know, we could do Thursday nights again or something, or I'll just randomly come on stream and go live again. And if you're here, you're here. And if you're not, then you'll watch it later on. And yeah, dude, I really enjoy these a lot. Let's see what else we got here. We got deleted scenes. Something else I could also do, I could also upload them without myself. So just by themselves. Oh, cool. So we got all these different deleted scenes here. Some of the documentaries. From puppets to pixels, state-of-the-art, pre-visualization of episode two. Cool. Tons of stuff we can do, man. It's going to be great. A lot of these films are getting well-deserved love. Definitely. Cancel Kathleen Kennedy, says Jedi Luke. John says, you know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see Dave Filoni taking Kathleen Kennedy's place. I guess I'd really enjoy that. Okay, now let's watch them again. I watched all three prequel documentaries literally like two days ago, right on my whole. I'm going to be watching it again. Join me on the gaming channel. We're going to be playing Ghost of Tsushima part six. And that's all I have for today. Hope you enjoyed it. We might do it tomorrow. We might do it a few days from now. I'm not really sure. We'll see how it goes. Love you all. I don't want to bore you all with like just the same old thing. I want to throw some lore and fan fictions and stuff in there. Once Upon a Theory is coming in the next few days. For join members, thank you guys so much. John, thank you. And yeah, that's it. I'm out. See you guys.