Actor Tim Rose recently revealed to The Australian that he was going to be returning as Admiral Ackbar for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This is extremly interesting because nobody expected him to be making a return to the franchise, especially given that the thirty year gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens and the fact that he was even present durning the Clone Wars cartoon set twenty some odd years before that! Regardless to how old the Admiral is, he's more then welcome to be returning to Star Wars. The rest of his interview discusses Tim's disliking of the extreme secrecy, all that is down below, check it out if you want.
"I'm very frustrated by that," Rose told AAP in Sydney.
Secrecy surrounding the movie is at an all-time high and Rose said this makes it harder for him to do his job.
"Out of the need to be secret, we're not actually able to get everything we need to do our jobs as well as we could," he said.
"And as someone who has been doing it for 35 years, I find it very frustrating."
Rose works as a puppeteer and gets into a full-on costume to operate and play the animatronic character of Admiral Ackbar.
It is a role he never expected to return to, likening the arduous conditions of acting in the costume to Guantanamo Bay.
The experience emulates methods used to interrogate terrorists at the US detention camp, he said, including sensory deprivation, suffocation from lack of air and the rise in body temperature from wearing the foam latex suit.
"It takes a unique sort of masochist to ever want to do it in the first place. But the joy of doing it is the joy of animatronics, and that's taking the foam latex, an inanimate object, and making people think it's alive."
Rose said a lot of people think anyone can don the suit and the results will be the same, but he argues every puppeteer brings something unique to their character.
"I'd like to think I gave Ackbar something special which you can tell. I think you can. I can tell when I see my friends who do specialised and full body suit work no matter what character they go into; I can tell you exactly who it is because I know their movements so well," he said.
With the return of Jedi writer Lawrence Kasdan (alongside JJ Abrams) and original cast members including Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, expectations for a return to form with this new film are high.
"What I can say about the new movie is that if you were a fan of the original three, you're going to absolutely love this one to bits," Rose said.
And if Rose's very veiled hints are anything to go by, there will be more original players returning to the franchise.
"You can expect a smorgasbord of people you love," he said.
Well, that's all i got, hope you liked it....The End