Seth Green: Man of Action Figures

During the MTV TRL screening for Revenge of the Sith, Green had a chance to live out a fan's dream by getting rare look inside the prop archives at Skywalker Ranch, with Lucas at his side. "When I came up for the MTV TRL event for the Episode III screening at Skywalker, I got to go on a tour of the archives with George and some other celebrities," Green recalls. "I was asked if I wanted to ask George some questions on the tour, and it was great because I got to wander around with him and we tried to have fun with it, and not make it super geeky but really focus on the filmmaking process. I was just excited to have a chat with him in this room of all this stuff he helped create."

"He did try to mess with me when we first started the tour though," Green laughs. "When we started there was a giant statue of Chewbacca and there are a couple of props like Darth Vader's helmet. He brought me over to the helmet which was enormous, and put it on my head. Then he told me to stand on the platform with Chewbacca so that the Wookiee's arms are around my chest. I jokingly suggested that Chewie and I should take a prom picture because that's exactly what it looked like. And as he was adjusting this huge helmet on my head, I said, 'You're making me look like Rick Moranis in Spaceballs.'"

In addition to the tour, Green was excited to finally see the final film of the saga, with Lucas in the audience. "You really can't have a more perfect place to see Revenge of the Sith than at Skywalker Ranch," Green says. "Episode III was amazing! I really loved it the way George tied everything together; it was one of his best-directed films. I love that he did not make the film soft, because after all it is a super-dark, violent, heartbreaking story. And he didn't waver in presenting it in that way. He made it hard and scary and it was believable."

As a fan of the saga, Green says he understands why Lucas wanted to not only be faithful to the adults who grew up with images of Darth Vader, but also to appeal to the next generation of young kids who still crave sense of wonderment and adventure in films and books. "I think it's so important for fantasy films like Star Wars to exist because it just makes you think in a direction that you don't typically get to," Green explains. "It's the same reason I encourage kids to read. I read so much when I was a little kid especially big, outrageous, lofty fantasy novels. It made me more imaginative and less limited. And movies like that are inspiring. They give kids a sense of wonder which is really important."

Some of that imagination and inspiration could have helped as a child, when he was saddled one memorable Halloween with a poorly-attempted Star Wars costume. "I still have pictures somewhere of me dressed up as Yoda for Halloween," Green laughs. "My mom made a horrible Yoda costume. I was painted green and she folded paper plates together and stuffed them with cotton and painted them green as well. I even asked for treats in Yoda's voice. Apparently, I got beat up a little bit. Those kids just didn't appreciate Jedi Masters."

As a kid, Green's appreciation fell more to the characters who inhabited the gray side between good and evil. "I always had a fascination with Boba Fett because he's such an intriguing character. One of these days I want to have a chat with Jeremy Bulloch and ask him about how his small five-line role as been turned into a lifestyle," says Green. "But to tell you the truth, I feel like I can relate more to Lando the most because he's always under a lot of pressure to do the right thing and sometimes he makes mistakes. Plus he's good with the ladies which is hard to pull off with that cape."

Cape or no cape, Green is proud to admit he's a diehard Star Wars fan. "It's easy to call myself a fan because it's great stuff to watch," Green says. "You can't debate quality. Everybody who's into it just knows that it's good and there's no shame in calling yourself a fan. It would take a lot for Star Wars to stop being cool to me."

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