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People: Ewokin' Tall

Warwick Davis is Ewokin' Tall

From the February 3, 1997 edition of People Magazine.
 

"I have hugged Harrison Ford's leg, and not many people can say that," quips Davis, recalling the scene in Jedi where, as Wicket, one of the pint-size-yet-scrappy Ewoks who help Han Solo and friends defeat the evil Empire, the then-12-year-old, 2'11" Davis grabbed six-footer Ford in jubilation. Davis, a native of Surrey, England, who in 1982 had answered an open casting call for little people, also has fond memories of Carrie Fisher, who served him milk and cookies between takes, and Mark Hamill, who gave him Star Wars toys. "I've still got them all upstairs," says Davis (now 26 and a feisty 3'6") in the four-bedroom house in Lincolnshire (100 miles north of London) he shares with his actress wife, Samantha Burroughs, 26. The couple met in 1985, when she visited the set of Labyrinth, in which he played a goblin. After their 1991 wedding, they honeymooned on Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, Calif. Davis, who has also played the title villain in four Leprechaun horror movies, is eager to work again for his first director. "I have had official word that I will be involved," he says of the new Star Wars prequels to begin filming next year. "I would do it for nothing."