If my math is correct, you were about 8 or 9 when the film "Willow" was released in 1988?
I was 8 years old, yeah.
What are your original recollections of that film? Did you fantasize about being in that world when you were a young kid?
Absolutely. It was one of my early recollections of being in a movie theater and the enormous power and scale that movies can have, [which can be] overwhelming and often terrifying. That imprinted on me very strongly, and the imagery, the comedy, and the romance — it all stuck with me because it was the golden age of VHS and home video and rental. That was a movie that you kept coming back to again and again.
By the time I was a teenager, I could quote most of that movie to you, and it was something I adored. Then, as the years went by and I found the opportunity to work with Lucasfilm and Warwick Davis himself, what you could see in Warwick is that he had only matured as a comedian, as an actor, and as a face that's handsome and studly. There was no question in anyone's mind — including his — that more "Willow" was in the offing.
