At this festival, it meant a touch of quality control. It’s a remarkable, and largely unsung, feat of performance: Though Daniels didn’t create C-3PO – that would be George Lucas – one man, and just one, who is now 73, has remained the steward and literal embodiment of the role he originated when he was 30. In that way, he is as real as the last time you saw him.” “One reason people employ me (as C-3PO) is not only because I can perform the character, but I know what is right for him. In fact, since the 1977 original, only Daniels has been inside the C-3PO costume and voiced the character – and not only in the movies, but in the animated series, on “Donnie & Marie,” at the Oscars, on “Sesame Street,” for video games, anti-smoking PSAs, Underoos commercials, amusement park rides. Daniels opens “Star Wars” exhibitions and speaks at conventions, MCs “Star Wars” concerts and product unveilings. And yet he’s here because of the award (a lifetime achievement from the Washington West Film Festival), and because he has a new memoir to promote, “I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story,” and because for decades Daniels has been a one-man ambassador for a franchise so ingrained in our cultural DNA, it only makes sense to call it a franchise if we also call the Grimms’ Fairy Tales a franchise.
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