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The Lightsabre Interview Jeremy Bulloch and Daniel Logan
Welcome to Lightsabre. Our latest guests have both portrayed the fearsome bounty hunter Boba Fett, one in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and the other in Attack of the Clones. But our aim was to see who's better - who's best. Please welcome back to Lightsabre Jeremy Bulloch and Daniel Logan.
Q – What is it like
portraying the coolest character in sci-fi? Jeremy Bulloch – Well, sometimes if you’re thinking
“Help, I’ve got a cold, I’m not feeling too well”, you start thinking – hello,
you’re Boba Fett, a cold wouldn’t worry you at
all. So you get on with things, so in a
way it gives you that injection. It was
a cool character to play. Daniel Logan – It always is cool, it’s the coolest
being the coolest character. But to me
I’m playing second best, I love Darth Maul, he’s my favourite character, but
it’s amazing. I love everyone coming up
and saying how inspired they were by me being in the movie and what an
inspiration I am to them and their family and good of a job I did. Everyone loves to have people build them up,
and some people are like ‘No, no, no,’ but I love it. People coming up and saying ‘You’re the best
character in Star Wars’ ‘Boba Fett rules!’, it really makes my day a little bit
better.
Q - Jeremy, is
Boba’s history anything like you’d imagined it to be when you were making
Empire and Jedi? JB – No, because all I thought was, when
you hear Boba Fett go “What if he doesn’t survive,” you think well something’s
happened to him, he’s got no face or something, he fought very hard, he’s a
human being. He maybe fought with Han
Solo at some stage. Now we leap forward to the prequels he’s a clone, but a
super clone. So it’s been very difficult
to undo what I’ve told people in the past.
I’ve said, ‘Well, it’s science fiction and I’m sorry, it’s something I
can’t talk about’. (Smiles). It’s funny; he is now a
super clone, so now I’ve got to go down that line. I think it’s great that he had a back
story.
Q - Daniel, do you
have any television work lined up over the next couple of years… DL – (Laughs) You’re gonna have to wait
and see like I have to, but I’ve got a few things in the pipeline, I just can’t
talk about them right now but I have a few things in the pipeline.
Q - Jeremy, tell us a little about Starhyke. JB – Yes, StarHyke is interesting. A lot of people have been hearing about it
because (of) the sudden interest from a couple of channels. They saw the first episode, it’s all fully
cut. It still needs some work on it, but
they saw it. They now want to see all
six episodes, which I sort of understand, but there’s the delay because now
they have to spend the money getting all the episodes finished (which) meant
financial burden again. And we all, as
you do with reality television at the moment, - which I think is destroying the
world – we all worked for very little, and long, long, long hours, sometimes
past eleven o clock. But never mind, keep going.
Hopefully through that it will be pushed through and shown. I’m not going to say it’s not like Red Dwarf,
in a way it is, and the character I play Doctor Striker is completely insane. If you had a medical condition, don’t go to him, whatever you do! So there’s a lot of fun, but it also becomes
very dramatic. There’s drama, comedy,
there’s everything. It’s been a long time, two years ago since we did it, so
it’s a long process. You just go on to
your next job, and if this comes out and they say ‘Ok, we’re ready to do a
second season’ then it’ll be all pistols out – bang.
Q – Daniel, how
come Jango bangs his head going into Slave-1, his genetic offspring the
Stormtroopers bang their heads but Boba doesn’t? DL – Boba Fett’s
a lot smarter. I don’t know. It’s because Boba Fett’s
a lot shorter! I’m not a very tall
guy. I always got away; I didn’t need to
bend down. The Stormtroopers and Jango,
they have bad memories so they were told ‘You’ve got to remember to duck your
head, no matter how many times you float around in that spaceship.’ They’re still always smashing their
heads. Actually Boba Fett’s
got a dent mark on his helmet.
Q – I guess he must
have done it once. DL – I guess we’ve all done it
sometime.
Q – There’s the
short story you can write. DL – Yeah, there goes a new story for
the TV show. How Boba Fett got his helmet dented. It’s a good story right there!
Q – It’s a good
episode title as well. DL – Exactly, exactly (laughs)
Q – Jeremy, you do a
lot of work for charity. Tell us about that. JB – Well I’ve done quite a few
things actually. I did Davros (Doctor Who’s arch enemy) for Children in Need, so
that was good. The Make a Wish Foundation
is really good. (I got to wear the
costume) for Make a Wish last year, and I might try to get in the costume with
the helmet to have as a new photo, but it has to be passed by Lucas. People keep saying, ‘Haven’t you got one of
you in the outfit?’ so that would be quite good, to renew that.
Q – Ok, who would win in a face off – original trilogy Boba or
prequel Boba, and why? JB – Well if you look at the original
trilogy Boba Fett he’s got a few dents in his outfit. He’s escaped a few. If you had the very young Boba Fett he
wouldn’t be experienced enough to beat (the older Fett). But if he’d grown up as a clone, meeting me,
he’s young and probably a little stronger.
But there’s no excuse for experience, is there? With the experience, the original Boba would
probably beat him. DL – Of
course me. I’m younger, smarter, hotter, cuter, faster. The younger
generation always do (win). They come out with the original but they always,
every year, bring out a newer faster model.
What can I say, I was that. JB - And he’d also beat Jabba the
Hutt and Darth Vader on the same day.
Q – I’d like to see
that. (motioning to David Prowse signing on the next
table) JB – No, he would beat him. He was quick.
Q – Yeah, arm
wrestling. You’d do him? JB – No, he did beat me (laughs). |
