The life of a droid wrangler is a long and winding road. Sometimes it takes you to the red carpet, other times events across the country and sometimes it can see you appearing with the UK’s biggest TV stars Ant and Dec on Saturday Night Takeaway. Here’s Lee Towersey explaining just what happened when he and fellow R2-D2 operator Paul Felski worked on the show last weekend.

Just as an introduction as to how this process starts. Lucasfilm first contacted me as all higher profile jobs have to go through Lucasfilm, even if it’s a Disney request. If Lucasfilm are happy with the request and the work involved they will reach out to me and ask for availability of a droid, in this case R2-D2. I then reach out to our database of Tier 2 R2D2 owners to find out their availability on the date given. Sam Prentice had recently appeared at the UK Premiere so it would normally fall to someone else so distribution of work is fair. Stuart Winstanley was unavailable, Paul Felski and Sam Prentice were, therefore it was decided that Paul would supply his R2-D2 and would be supported by myself.

I then contact Lucasfilm to confirm droid availability and once they are happy I then deal direct with the company, in this case Disney. For weeks we know the dates involved which did change from three days to two days and then a week or so before the event we were informed it was for Saturday Night Takeaway which was confidential at the time and we are placed under a Non Disclosure Agreement.

So without further ado, here’s the video I put together of our two days at Television Centre Wood Lane working on an ITV Show!

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