10 Actors Who Prepared Totally WRONG For A Role
3. Dermot Crowley Shaved His Beard - Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi
You may not remember the name Crix Madine, but you might recall the Rebel general in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi who devises the plan to destroy the second Death Star's shield generator.
More to the point, there's a good chance you noticed the very obvious fake beard glued to the guy's face, because apparently a $40 million sci-fi epic couldn't afford some decent facial hair makeup.
Yet there's more to the story than this.
Madine's actor, Dermot Crowley, risked causing a not-insignificant kerfuffle for the production when he turned up to set with a clean-shaven face, given that even the most minor of Star Wars characters have their own action figures and peripheral merchandise prepared in advance.
When Crowley reported to set to shoot his small role, the action figures for Madine had already been manufactured and showed him rocking a decent growth of facial hair.
And so, in order to not create a legal issue with toy company Kenner Products, Crowley was quickly fitted with the infamously naff fake beard.
I mean, just look at that thing.