Star Wars: This ban by Yoda’s father for the film crew

Frank Oz is above all the voice that touched the childhood of millions of people, especially several characters from his friend Jim Henson’s Muppets, including Miss Peggy or Fozzie Bear. He was also the interpreter of these creatures in the Jim Henson feature films Tales from Muppetland: the frog prince (1972); James Frawley’s The Muppets, That’s Cinema (1979), Jim Henson’s The Great Muppet Carper (1981) or Tim Healy’s The Muppets in Space (1999).

A little (but not too far) away from the world of the Muppets, Frank Oz is of course credited with making the character of Yoda in the Star Wars saga go down in history thanks to his inimitable voice, in addition to being the one responsible for animating the puppet on set. Phrases and voice so iconic that they are forever inseparable from this character, who has largely entered the pantheon of pop culture.

Finally, when we say unrepeatable, it’s clear, because Frank Oz was clearly not happy with the pranks of the film crew on the set of Empire Strikes Back, during the scenes on the planet Dago where Yoda takes on Luke Skywalker. Under his wing to train.

A cute anecdote comes from Mark Hamill, who said this in a recent video interview Wired. The question asked him if he could imitate Yoda’s voice. The actor responds in the affirmative, accurately recalling that these impersonators had a knack for straining Oz on set.

“When Frankie was doing Yoda, everyone started doing Yoda imitating his voice. Cameramen, diner staff, customers, stand-ins, stuntmen…”Oh, are you hungry? Are you going to the bathroom?” Finally Frank had to say, “Listen, I’m sick of your impersonations when I want to keep her clean.” I knew exactly what he meant. We all stopped for one shot. The rest is history!”