Jeremy Bulloch Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

I always thought of him as Clint Eastwood (in A Fistful of Dollars): cool, slow in movement, yet quick when he needs to be.

I am doing much less now, I suppose in the last five years I have done quite a few and it has been fun, so I thought I'm going to do what I want to do, unless there is something really good (work wise) coming up.

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet.

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.

I love music, film, and theatre. Everything to do with the profession is fantastic.

I love to travel, my wife and I both do, and Star Wars has enabled us to travel all over the world attending conventions.

I started acting at the age of 12 and did several children's films, and the musical (Summer Holliday) came up out of the blue.

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

I was lucky to have had a good costume.

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.

Last year I attended a James Bond convention, even though I only played Q's assistant in two films and spoke two lines.

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

No, Jar Jar Binks was fine by me but probably went on a little bit too long. When they were in trouble and were battling, it should have been more serious and it became a bit too silly.

Not made for a human being to wear is what I always tell people, the shoes were tight, the jet pack was 35 pounds.

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

The children are grown up and left home.

Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.

To still be working after 44 years in the profession. I am now doing what I want.

You're always going to pick faults with something and Jar Jar Binks was sometimes like the Ewoks, but it's a character that is loved by lots of young kids.

Trivia

Attended the I Central American Star Wars Convention at Guatemala City, Guatemala, to talk about his character "Boba Fett", on 27-28 July 2002.

He said at the conference that his favorite line on his Star Wars appearances was: "Put Captain Solo on the cargo hold".

He also confessed that the first time he said that line, it was: "Put Captain CARGO on the SOLO hold".

In the 2004 DVD release of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the voice of Boba Fett (voiced by Jason Wingreen) has been dubbed over by Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett (the father of Boba Fett, Bulloch's character) in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). Ironically, both Bulloch and Morrison will appear in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).

Half-brother of Robert Watts.