Scheduling Conflicts Nearly Cost Alan Tudyk His Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Role.
Alan Tudyk, who is playing a motion-capture character in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has recently revealed that his involvement with the crowdfunded web show Con Man nearly cost him his role in the movie. Plus, he also reveals what two characters his character will interact with the most in the film. Click ahead to find out how he got around the scheduling issue…
From DigitalSpy:
“[Gareth] offered it to me in the room – it didn’t seem real,” Tudyk recalled. “I said, ‘I would love to say yes, but it is contingent on one thing. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but if you’re shooting in June, I have to say no’ – because that’s when we were shooting Con Man, and I couldn’t figure out how to reschedule it.”
Fortunately for Tudyk, he was able to accept the part after Edwards told him he wouldn’t be needed on the film’s Pinewood Studios set.
“It’s more fun on a movie set than I’ve had in a very long time,” he said. “I didn’t know what to expect. I really like my fellow cast-members – Diego Luna and Felicity Jones, I see them a lot, most of my scenes are with them. And Gareth is great.”
Tudyk also noted that even though filming the movie has been a bit of a challenge for him, the joy of being able to work on a Star Wars project helped him power through some of the more difficult aspects of shooting his scenes. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story comes out on December 16, 2016. The first few episodes of Tudyk’s Con Man can be viewed on Vimeo.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
Wonder what species he’s playing?
Gungan obviously
Haha! Would they dare? I’d be down for it.
Of course he’s gonna be a bothan.
A bothan, of course.
Well, he’s obviously Darth Plagueis from Jakkuine. 😉
Jar Jar Binks’s cousin. Seim Leim Dikk.
Steve the Pirate?
(Exclusive) An actual scene from Rogue One:
Lando: How ya doin’ ya old Pirate?!
Steve the Pirate: Yarr! I be doin’ just fine lad!
Wait, there’s a guy on our crew who dresses like a pirate?
I still think hes playing a mo cap Cad Bane. I look at him and just see Cad.
Maybe, but why would they make a Duros into a mo-cap character? Duros were actors in suits in ANH.
I thought this as well, but if they specifically wanted to do Cad Bane, I think they would have to go Mo-Cap as it seems like a guy in a mask would not be up to the task to portray the character properly. Then again, we have Ackbar and Nunb suits in the film so what do I know?
Fair enough. Good points.
Ackbar and Nunb don’t have the expression range facially that Cad Bane was shown to have during the Clone Wars cartoon.
Those Duros were background characters, and Cad would be a main/major character, which means we’d need to see his facial expressions and more complex movements than just “nodding your head and maybe swiveling it a few times”.
hello Zeb……
hello Zeb²
It it was Zeb, they would’ve just hired Steve Blum. I think he’ll be an original character.
I was thinking this as well. If there is a character from Rebels in this film, Zeb would be the easiest to pull off (easy in terms of casting – not considering all that goes in to motion capture). For ex. – they wouldn’t have to find actors that can pull off the look and voice of Kanan Jarrus or Hera Syndulla. The just need an expressive actor for the mo-cap performance who can do the voice. Of course, I don’t know why Steve Blum wouldn’t do the part if it was Zeb, so I don’t think it is, but it is certainly possible.
so I’m just now learning about Alan being cast in R1. First we get Rebels, now Wash is in one of the films? Is Star Wars trying to become Firefly?
(Not that I’m complaining =D)
Star Wars could be much worse things than Firefly! Browncoats unite!
Doesn’t he look EXACTLY like how you always pictured an anthromorphic C-3PO too look like?
No.
Well, for starters, C-3PO is anthropomorphic to begin with.
Second of all, no.
Would that every actor had the problem of ‘scheduling conflicts.’
Bummed this guy is motion capture, I have enjoyed his work and his facial expressions are part of it.
I hope he’s a badass Gungan.
As much of a miss Jar Jar was, I actually would like to see a LIKEABLE Gungan. Think about it, an off-the-grid, primitive, but ultimately good culture that periodically helps the outside world. Jar Jar should’ve been f#$%king Rambo! Instead we got the village idiot. Shame. Qui Gon should’ve been hanging out with Jar Jar’s surly sergeant-uncle dude – that guy’s actually cool.
He already did great mo-cap work on i robot.
FYI. Under the COMMENTS it reads Goggle+ and not Google+
I was gonna tell them last week, but I enjoyed the goggle so much I decided not to.
This guy is so overrated.
Why? He’s a solid actor that seems to be pretty down to Earth and connects well with his fans. It’s not like he has a Tom Cruise ego or anything like that.
If he’s such a “solid actor,” why did he hafta Kickstart his broke-ass “Firefly” comic con parody that’s pretty rough on fans? Why’s he a motion-capture second-stringer?
Maybe he kickstarted it to make sure there was enough interest to move forward with it and isn’t Nathan Fillion involved also? Having a kickstarter for something doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t putting your own money into it and aren’t personally invested also just as it doesn’t absolve you of liability either when things go wrong. I haven’t heard of him screwing people over with it so what does it matter? As for being a “motion capture second stringer” where was that stated? Being a MoCap character doesn’t say anything whatsoever as to whether he is or isn’t a main character, secondary character, or anything else. Chewie isn’t one of the big three but he’s essential to the story and a worthwhile character, this could be the same type of situation. The point is, there’s quite literally nothing at all to say how heavily the movie does or does not lean on his character and performance. Gollum was a secondary and CGI character that relied heavily upon and was celebrated for Serkis actual performance prior to the CGI and again, this could be in the same vein. To write it off because it’s CGI or because he successfully kickstarted his movie is ignorant and to be honest, pretty pathetic. What happened? Did you audition for a role and didn’t get a call-back? Or are you just naturally jealous of decent people that have the good fortune to be successful at what they do? If the guy was a douchebag or an @sshole to his fans I could understand the hate, but from what I’ve seen he’s not.
Rogue One boasts the best casting SW movie in my humble opinion.
I agree
I always loved Alan’s fits of rage in the movie A Knights tale. Hopefully he goes into berserker mode on Rogue One and thrashes someone.
I was hoping for that too in Rogue One. “A Knights Tale” is always the first movie I think of for both Tudyk and Paul Bettany.
I always thought Tudyk was British as he does an English accent in the majority of what I have seen him in. Apparently, he’s from Texas. It’s nice to see a few Americans still have the chops for Star Wars these days. Whitaker is also from Texas, I think. Not that it matters…if you’re good for the part, I don’t care where you’re from, but kudos to Tudyk and Whitaker for representing the red, white, and blue. 🙂
It’s red, white and blue for us here in the UK too! 😉
yeah I guess we ripped off the colors of the flag after we announced we were cutting ties with the gov’t of the merry ol’ homeland. 🙂
I love that he’s in a Star Wars movie. Hope his character is not a leaf on the wind.
I wish they kept Anthologies instead of A Star Wars Story. Sounds too much like a A Christmas Story. Just sounds low budget and cheesy. Looking forward to this though.
I agree.
How did you guys know about this guy in the first place?