Eric Walker

Oh, there you go.

You know what? Our friend is Eric Walker, who played Mace Tawani in the Ewok movies.

I'll let him know that.

Hey, you know what? Maybe campaign to have you write a Star Wars thriller.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Cop and the Con podcast, starring Tanner Johnson and...

Eric Walker.

And...

Dory.

I'm glad to be here.

So we were kind of talking beforehand that we've met through Eric Walker with his Slice of Sci-Fi podcast that he was doing.

Mike and I would be in the comments and we kind of started chatting back and forth and whatnot.

And then Mike reached out to me one day about being a Facebook friend and then we You and Eric and the rest of the gang did a tour of Andor.

Well, that's why he was hired, apparently.

Mace, played by Eric Walker, apparently he was hired because they thought he looked like Luke Skywalker.

Okay, I almost wondered, like, was this supposed to be a Luke Skywalker, like, prequel thing? They just canned it but kept the costume? But maybe it's just to give kids familiarity.

You know, like, hey, there's some things I recognize.

She's like, I had to go live in space for a while.

She actually lives on the fourth moon of Endor.

but i say that as if the other kid eric walker did anything else he didn't really do much either but i found a movie and it's it's gonna go on our wheel of death okay uh for bad movies worse people because he was in a movie in 2005 called getting the munchies

getting

So even the documentary of that is out there.

So it was this kind of, me looking for what i the next kind of film project i wanted to do and i know i want still wanted to keep on the documentary route on going down and i just happened to come across eric walker on facebook uh the lead actor from the first movie and then second money was killed off but that's a whole different story uh but uh yeah so i sent him a message on facebook and saying oh i see you're going to the london film and comic-con and i i basically said can i tag along sort of film you interview you over the weekend you're there and he said yes and long story short he ended up telling me he's got like two three hours worth of like behind the scenes like footage and pictures himself and warwick davis filmed like on set that like lucasfilm and disney don't really have the rights to because they filmed it it's their stuff So he just sort of said, do you want it? And do you want to make it more of a thing than just a couple pictures in an interview at a comic con? So now it's an actual sort of deep dive into the making of two Ewok movies.

You got it.

You got it, Mark.

That's one of the only people I haven't been able to Yeah, unfortunately, because of I've come close to getting her involved because of the nature of it.

And she was so young in that film.

And Eric, Eric Walker, he's still quite close to her, still talks to her a lot.

And he says she rarely does conventions as it is.