Comedian Liam Neeson recently looked back on his memories of filming Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace. He remembered a particular memory during which his young son visited him on the set of the film. Little Neeson then crossed paths with R2D2, resulting in a cute and touching encounter.
Star Wars I – the beginning of the prelogy
In 1999, almost twenty years after the conclusion of the original trilogy, George Lucas decides to develop new films Star Wars. He embarks on the production of The Phantom Menace, which takes place years before the events of the original trilogy. The opportunity for the filmmaker to tell the genesis of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
In the very first film of this prelogy, spectators also cross paths with Qui-Gon Jinn, the master of Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by the great Liam Neeson. Recently, the latter returned to the filming of the feature film.
A cute keepsake
In a recent interview with ScreenRantLiam Neeson returned to a sweet memory of his son during the filming of The Phantom Menace. Promoting the film Memorythe journalists obviously asked him some questions concerning the series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obviously, the actor does not have much information on the matter. Rather, he recalled an important memory of his life, during the filming of The Phantom Menace. He was with his son, Michael, then 2 years old, when they crossed paths with R2D2. An ultra-cute encounter that spawned one of his best memories on the set of this opus of the saga Star Wars :
I know Ewan does the show. Yeah, I can’t believe it’s been 24 years since we shot the movie in London. My God. I remember my son. I’ll tell you a funny story. My son Michael was two years old. His nanny brought him to visit me on set and it was lunchtime. I held him in my arms and took him to the set and there was R2-D2, parked in the corner. My son looked at this strange piece of metal, and stretched out his arms towards it. So I put him down and he waddled over to hug R2-D2. I thought that was very interesting. He was two years old. He didn’t know anything about Star Wars, hadn’t seen any of the movies. It was so cute. I remember saying to George Lucas after lunch, “I brought my son. He had to come down and kiss R2-D2 and it was really touching.” And George just said, “Yeah.”
What is quite touching in this story is that the two-year-old boy was not impressed or worried by the little droid. On the contrary, he was automatically drawn to the design of this iconic character. A way to prove that George Lucas was right with R2D2, and that its design had something to seduce the whole world, and even the youngest. It remains to be seen if our favorite droid will make an appearance in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
