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Hungarian Wookie in the new Star Wars movie
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6 Hungarians were working on Solo: A Star Wars Story. Attila Vajda was playing Sagwa, a Wookie helping the main characters and he had some interesting stories to share with zoom.hu.
Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, and since then there is no Star Wars movie without Hungarians. In The Last Jedi, we can watch Zoé Nemes in some of the casino scenes, while in Solo we have the Szekler former basketball player, Attila Vajda as a Wookie.
There are several Hungarians who worked on Solo: George Zádor (video assist operator), Enikő Karády (key costume maker), Kornél Farkas (digital compositor), Attila Vajda (actor) and Ágoston Gábor (unit manager in Italy).
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There were some small misunderstandings around Attila Vajda’s character just before the premiere. A photo was leaked about a Wookie, and the first guess was that the role was Chewbacca’s wife. Later, articles were saying that Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO in previous movies was now playing the Wookie. Jon Kasdan screenwriter told Uproxx that Daniels is playing a Wookie that is Chewbacca’s good friend and helps them escape from somewhere. Since Daniels is not exactly a huge man, it was hard to imagine him as a Wookie. Later Kasdan changed his statement and said that Daniels is playing a human con artist, Tak.
After this, international news articles were not really interested in who is finally playing Segwa. Of course, we are proud to say that the Hungarian Attila Vajda is playing the Wookie.