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Lucasfan.com: Excerpt from Eric Walker Interview

Excerpt from Lucasfan.com's Eric Walker Interview

This is an excerpt from an April 2000 interview with The Ewok Adventure star Eric Walker that appeared on the Lucasfan.com website. This excerpt discusses a behind-the-scenes project that Warwick Davis and Eric Walker collaborated on during the filming of the movie, and is my favorite part of the interview. The full interview includes other Warwick Davis information; you can read it on the Lucasfan.com webpage. Excerpt reprinted with permission of Mike at Lucasfan.com.

 

Lucasfan.com: I found a quote from Starlog Magazine #101 in an interview with Warwick Davis: "When off the set of The Ewok Adventure, Davis worked behind the camera on a parallel project. The impetus for this other film came from Davis' friendship with co-star Eric Walker. "George Lucas hired a video camera for us - I took my own as well, just to make a film of the holiday - and we made a documentary of it," says Davis. The two worked under the name "W & W Productions" (for Warwick and Walker). "We were just filming around the set, what was happening. And we put that together with some music." Once again, the finished production didn't reach the public - it was intended strictly for private viewing." Can you tell a bit more about this? Do you still have it? It sounds pretty funny.

Eric Walker: I don't think I read that article in Starlog but it is accurate. Warwick and I did a school project while filming The Ewok Adventure. Our teacher on the set, Ramsey, came up with the idea because Warwick and I were always talking about becoming directors. We used to make commercials with the food and soft drinks of the lunch truck with Warwick's camera. A couple of them were Welch's grape juice, where Warwick read from the can, "Welch's grape juice, no sugar added, so we'll add some." (He then poured a ton of sugar into the can). Also, A&W rootbeer, "it's full of roots." (Warwick then grabbed a bunch of straw from the ground and started stuffing the can with it).

Anyway, because of this oddball behavior and guerilla film making, she came up with the idea to have us make a behind-the-scenes film as a school project. So Warwick and I went around interviewing people and also went behind the scenes inside of ILM taking video. We got into trouble for going into ILM and video taping the miniatures of Indiana Jones and Star Wars ships, but all they did was ask us not to do it again. We did call ourselves W&W productions, which stands for Warwick and Walker.

We have two versions of the making of The Ewok Adventure. One of them has George Lucas with his daughter Amanda and Linda Ronstadt. That version was only was given to George Lucas, Warwick and myself. The other versions were given out to the crew do not have them in it. Because of time, the final version is only edited to music, with no interviews. But with the original master a more complete piece can be done.