Cool Videos: Chewbacca speaks English on the set of The Empire Strikes Back

By Kevin Fraser

Posted 9 years ago

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

For decades we've become so accustomed to Chewbacca's distinctive growls, warbles and roars that anything different would sound incredibly strange. Over the weekend documentarian Jamie Benning uncovered footage from the set of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK which features Chewbacca speaking with Peter Mayhew's British accent, and it definitely gives a whole different feel to the character. Mayhew himself shared the footage, calling it a "wonderful bit of stuff," and it leaves me wondering what Chewbacca's English lines were for the rest of the trilogy.

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