10 Fascinating Star Wars Facts That Sound Fake (But Will Blow Your Mind!)
8. The Rebel Pilots Were Attacking The Death Star In Shorts
You can always count on good ol' Mark Hamill to provide Star Wars fans with fun pieces of unexpected and scarcely believable trivia.
And when nudged to throw another fascinating little detail onto his followers' Twitter feeds back in 2019, the legend of this galaxy far, far away gifted us with the reveal of precisely what was really going down during the making of one of the coolest sequences in movie history.
According to the Luke Skywalker actor, around the time the cast and crew were shooting the epic attack on the Death Star scene for the original flick, the UK was in the middle of a record heatwave.
Because of a record heatwave in England when we filmed the original #StarWars, most of the pilots wore only the top-half of their costume, attacking the Death Star wearing shorts. #TrueStory https://t.co/RSgZRneft9
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) January 5, 2019
So, rather than force the various pilots to hop in their cockpit and suffer through the relentless heat in their full costumes, Hamill explained how the majority of them opted to only wear the top halves of their suits.
And just like that, you'll never look at these various pantless X and Y wing pilots the same way ever again...