The wookie won: how Peter Mayhew brought Chewbacca to life

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The wookie won: how Peter Mayhew brought Chewbacca to life
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It’s easy to imagine Star Wars made its cast famous overnight.

It’s easy to imagine Star Wars made its cast famous overnight. But in September 1977, four months after the original film broke box US office records, Chewbacca was still making a living mopping floors and slopping out bedpans in Croydon.

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