Star Wars Episode 3: Catch a freeze frame 43 minutes into the movie and get a good look at this blue character!

A reference to George Lucas’s feature debut hidden on the back of a battle droid, a bounty hunter who beats his helmet through his ship’s airlock, a cousin’s delegation to the ET Alien in the Senate of Coruscant or floating in the middle of a potato. Asteroid Field…

Even if they’re a little less easter eggs than some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Pixar studio feature films, episodes of the Star Wars saga contain some hidden details that the biggest fans of the galaxy far, far away are well aware of. . But while some of these references are well-known and easy to find, others are sometimes much more difficult to find.

The wink we’re interested in today is one of the most prestigious cameos and can be seen in Revenge of the Sith, Prelude Episode 3, released in 2005. You’ll have to hit pause at 43 minutes and 4 to see it. Seconds into the film, at the beginning of the sequence where Anakin Skywalker joins Palpatine in a strange performance at the Coruscant Opera House.

After climbing the building’s grand four-by-four staircase, the young Jedi rushes into the senator’s gallery to watch the spectacle. Just as he walks through the door, take a close look at the character on the left wearing a purple uniform and blue skin.

It’s hard to notice if you’re not careful, but it’s just about…George Lucas, the film director and creator of Star Wars, making his one and only cameo here in the saga. As we learn in the Clone Wars episode of the animated series, where he appears again, the character he portrays is called Notluwiski Papanoida, the Baron of the planet Pantora.