“And on that basis some passages were easy and fun to just shuffle down on the keyboard, and others, I did find quite. Read more: The Oscars are snobbish towards Star Wars, says Daniels “There were some things I needed to say about the very good times, and about the not so good times,” Daniels tells us, “and if I was going to be candid about everything, then it needed to be that.” The brutally honest book – in shops now – was hard to write, the actor admits to Yahoo. It’s one of pain and suffering, of indignity and betrayals, but ultimately, it’s a story of redemption as Daniels’ retelling of his life as Threepio sees the classically-trained actor reconciling with his lifelong association with the sci-fi franchise and its fans. However, his new book I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story reveals a dark side to his story. He’s the only actor to have appeared in all nine live action Star Wars film – including the latest The Rise of Skywalker – and he’s reprised the role of Threepio countless times on radio and on stage, in animation and video games, on TV and even on theme park rides. The 73-year-old actor has played protocol droid C-3PO ever since being cast by George Lucas in the first film, produced in 1976, and released in 1977.
He also cited the 2004 movie I, Robot, in which a synthetic army rebels against humanity, as a believable example of how things could go wrong.Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO in the films, during rehearsals for Star Wars: A Musical Journey at the 02 Arena in London.Īnthony Daniels is the first to admit he has a complicated relationship with the Star Wars franchise. He pointed to the films Bicentennial Man and AI: Artificial Intelligence, which premiered in 19, respectively, as examples of how he thinks the tech could develop. "AI is advancing rapidly, but it's already heading towards a buffer point where you begin to question it - now people are even questioning the rights of AI - because it is potentially open to abuse of all sorts." he said. Though we have lifelike humanoid robots today, Daniels doesn't think robots in our world will ever exist like they do in a galaxy far, far away. "Often, a difference here is made up by an exquisite skill over here." Could C-3PO exist? "We're all more sensitive to that these days, we understand that people are different in all sorts of ways," he said. People regularly tell him that Threepio makes them feel more comfortable in their skin, because they often don't understand human behavior either.
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