I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
From David Prowse
My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.
I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!
But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.
I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.
I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
As a director he was not that interested in Vader.
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