Anthony Daniels has been playing C-3PO for almost 50 years now, but he still remembers the first time he wore the iconic droid’s golden costume, describing it as “a nightmare.” Speaking with Nacelle’s Icons Unearthed, Daniels recalled that although it had previously been agreed that he’d get time to rehearse while wearing the C-3PO costume, he was only given around 10 minutes to try it on during the initial fitting for 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope at Elstree Studios in London. The actor ended up wobbling around in it like a bull in a china shop, his vision obscured.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});“They put it on me, piece by piece by piece, and gradually, I really kind of felt I was losing my humanity,” Daniels said. “I was clamped into this. And then they did have a camera turning. And for about 10 minutes or so, I wobbled around this workshop, crashing into things, smashing things. And then they took it off.”Daniels added, “It was a relief, you know? Ten minutes, 15 minutes, felt like a lifetime, a nightmare. I couldn’t see anything. It’s no wonder I crashed into stuff.”Expressing a desire to keep the costume so he could get used to moving around while wearing all the gold pieces, he was then told that it had to be shipped to Tunisia for the looming Tatooine shoot, so this would be his only chance to explore what his performance would be like until the cameras were rolling for real.“I’d only ever been in theater and television and radio before this, and in all of those things you tend to rehearse stuff, and you get it right, and you make it work,” Daniels explained. “You work out new things, you experiment. Not so much with 3PO.”Daniels said the crew did their best when he was finally taped and bolted back into the etiquette and protocol droid’s costume over in the hot Tunisia desert, but it was a long and tricky process, with the head alone taking two people half an hour to put on. “Nobody had ever done this before,” Daniels said. “And for good reason!”Though Daniels had a rough start with C-3PO all those years ago, he has reprised the role numerous times since, and even wrote a memoir about his experiences playing the Star Wars character in 2019 called I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story.The post Star Wars: Anthony Daniels Recalls Nightmarish First Encounter with C-3PO Costume appeared first on Den of Geek.