George Lucas wrote Willow for Warwick Davis after seeing him play an Ewok in Star Wars. As the actor returns as the baby-saving sorcerer, he talks about Val Kilmer pep talks, the Harry Potter shoot – and channelling a Ricky Gervais sitcom
“If it’s something that’s your creation, and is so dear to you, you’re obviously going to have an opinion about someone else’s handling of it,” he says. “So whether this series will be what he envisaged? I don’t know. He often talked about it being something for TV, similar to the way they did Young Indiana Jones years ago. He could see it that way. I’d be interested to know. We’re still in touch, so I’ll ask him.
“Not all actors feel like this, but I feel that fans are basically the reason why you’re successful,” he says. “You kind of owe them in a sense, but you don’t owe them your entire life. It’s weird. I mean, once Willow came out, I was suddenly recognised as opposed to being behind these masks. But each thing you do there’s a new level. When I did Life’s Too Short, I was recognised a lot more, plus they started to think they knew me, even though I was playing a fictional me.
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