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THE STAR WARS SHOW

Now in its third season, the show has reading and watching old interviews out onstage. “Andi saw the dog and she
come a long way since the pilot episode, featuring the slated guest to identify was crying,” says Bromley. “Then Carrie
earning itself an Emmy nomination in new and unexplored angles to take. came out as well, of course.”
2017, and garnering so many views via “By doing research you can always fi nd “That was the coolest thing anyone
StarWars.com and YouTube that hosts some line that clearly interested an has ever done for me,” Gutierrez says
Andi Gutierrez and Anthony Carboni interviewee, but which the interviewer through joyful tears.
get a movie star-style reception when didn’t follow up on,” says Bromley. “Use Just like Gutierrez, everyone working
they appear at conventions. During last that as a basis for a question and they on the show was a Star Wars fan before
year’s Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, light up. It makes them want to talk.” they joined the team. Bromley watched

one young fan even declared Gutierrez However, for one particular interview Return of the Jedi during its first run in
to be her favorite Star Wars character! the team didn’t let Gutierrez do any the theaters, before seeing the rest of
prep at all. the original trilogy at home on VHS. “I
Breaking The Script During the live show at Star Wars remember loving the Ewoks,” he says,
So, what does it take to pull together Celebration London, Bromley, Mickey “and when I was ill, I had a recurring
each new episode? Bromley starts his Capoferri, and the entire crew surprised fever dream about not being able to
week crafting the script, before the small their host with the chance to speak to lift the X-wing out of the swamp on
crew gathers to shoot the news segment. Carrie Fisher. One of Bromley’s favorite Dagobah and Yoda getting mad. So Star
“We have a tiny set, which we try to moments from the show, it’s a memory Wars really was the stuff of my dreams!”
make look much bigger,” says Harper. that still leaves Gutierrez in tears. Bromley grew up in San Francisco,

“We get a few different looks out of it “Carrie is my hero,” she says. “And and so Lucasfilm was a constant presence
and we can switch it around in a matter by the time we were at Celebration, I’d in his young life. “Star Wars is the Bay
of minutes.” had three interviews with her canceled Area,” he says. “It’s everywhere. I grew
“Scott knows our personalities and at the last minute. After that many let- up walking around and seeing people in
how we interact really well, and that downs, I’d decided that I wasn’t going Lucasfilm sweatshirts who worked here

enables him to script everything so that to get my hopes up.” and thinking, ‘Oh yeah. That is a real
it has a natural flow,” says Gutierrez. Adds Bromley: “So, I sat Andi in the thing that you can do one day.’”

“But Anthony always goes off script and cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, and Harper’s story is a little different.
has his little asides, because he’s just so I told her: ‘All right, I don’t know who “I don’t have that one moment,” he

witty like that. It keeps me on my toes we’re talking to, you might have to keep says of his journey to Lucasfilm. “I was
and it lightens the mood. It’s probably it generic. I had already taped some always a huge, huge fan of the movies,
80 percent scripted and 20 percent question cards underneath where she but I was even more a fan of all the
Anthony being weirdly creative and was sitting, but obviously Andi didn’t behind-the-scenes stuff. I liked that
trying to throw me off!” know that! She was looking at me as if even more than the movies themselves!
“That’s my favorite part,” comments to say, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing!’ I dreamed and dreamed and dreamed
Bromley, “watching him throw off Andi. And I said: ‘You’re going to be fi ne. of working for Lucasfilm or Industrial

I also love slipping silly things into the Just look at the camera, smile and say Light & Magic (ILM) one day.”
teleprompter for her to read, too.” “Welcome back! Here’s something that For Gutierrez, landing the role of
For most of the interview segments, you guys are going to love.”’ The Star Wars Show host was more
Gutierrez and Bromley sit down to go Gutierrez delivered the line, and Gary serendipitous—she had already been

over the topics they want to cover, Fisher, Carrie’s beloved pet pooch, trotted managing Lucasfilm’s social media for
more than two years before Mickey
Capoferri and Matt Martin tapped her
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as a potential host. “I didn’t set out
wanting to work for Lucasfi lm,” she
says, “but when the opportunity arose,
I wasn’t going to say no! Now it’s just
taken over my life, and it’s really neat
to be a part of it. I was seven when my
dad first showed me Return of the Jedi

on his Laserdisc player. He just thought
I would like the Ewoks!”
The Working Week
No week on The Star Wars Show is
ever the same as the last. “There is
no standard week, ever,” says Harper.
“Mondays are for scripting and then
shooting, and Tuesdays are usually
reserved for editing, but an interview