GOLDEN BOY
SFX HAS BEEN GRANTED AN audience with one of the world’s biggest sci-fi icons, but chances are most people would walk past him in the street. Fortunately we’re not “most people” and Anthony Daniels is instantly recognisable when we meet in a London restaurant. Not least because we’ve both just returned from another Star Wars event in LA which, in typical “timey-wimey” SFX ways, we can’t talk about until next issue.
But that’s fine – because we’re here to discuss 40-plus years of playing arguably the most famous robot in science fiction, C-3PO. Or rather, his new book I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story, which does a very good job of covering everything. Well, not quite everything.
“I notice now when people publish a book, they always have an amazing revelation about having slept with the Pope, or something,” Daniels smiles. “And I just think that’s so trashy. So sorry guys. Nothing like that.”
He laughs
