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4 THANK THE MAKERS!

Lucasfilm president and executive
3 34 producer Kathleen Kennedy
approached members of the R2 Builders Club
Members at Star Wars Celebration in 2013 and
asked them if they wouldn’t mind making the
R2-D2 prop seen in The Force Awakens.
Of course they said yes!

DOCTOR

35DOOKU?

Actress Harriet Walter plays Doctor
Kalonia, the physician who treated
Chewie’s wounds after the skirmish
at Takodana. In addition to The Force
Awakens, Walter has appeared as Lady
Shackleton on Downtown Abbey. She is
also the niece of Christopher Lee, who
played Count Dooku in Attack of the
Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

3 6 FEELING

36BLUE

Blue Squadron makes its
debut in The Force Awakens.
Luke Skywalker was originally
supposed to fly with Blue

Squadron in A New Hope,
but the star fighters’ blue

markings made it difficult

to film against blue screens,
so they were changed to
red instead. The resulting
moniker was Red Squadron.

SNAP TO ACTION!

Greg Grunberg is an actor and
37 ildhood friend of J.J. Abrams who
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has appeared in many of the famed director’s
productions. In The Force Awakens, Grunberg
plays X-wing pilot Temmin “Snap” Wexley. It was
his character who provided the Resistance with
the information they needed to launch an attack

against the Starkiller Base. Wexley was first
introduced in Aftermath by Chuck Wendig.