Parting of the Nerd seas.

Ha ha ha. This made me giggle. On any film, I always seek out anyone who worked on the Star wars films. I recently met one of the make-up artists and he had some rad stories. He explained how many of the prosthetic creatures were still played by humans (despite most of it being CGI). As a treat to Star wars nerds, many of the casting calls for these roles were put to super duper nerdy Star wars club members They didn't, however, think to cast people who actually knew what it felt like to wear a giant prosthetic head all day. Apparently many a nerd had panic attacks and often on set you would see one either drop to the ground or run around in circles screaming "Get it off". ha ha ha. How funny. He also explained that NO ONE was allowed to touch R2 D2. At all times there had to be a 2 metre gap between yourself and R2. On a few occasions R2D2 would go a bit crazy and his controls wouldn't work (He was operated much like a remote control car with a little person inside). R2 would buzz around in all directions and people would be literally jumping out of his way so they wouldn't break the 2 metre rule. I can just see this god like robot parting great seas of people wherever he went. So silly and fun.