BIOGRAPHIES: #3 Warwick Davis in all the Star Wars
At 3’6” tall, Warwick Davis is one of the most famous little people that has appeared on the big screen. Warwick had auditioned for the role of an Ewok back in 1982 after his grandmother had heard on the radio that there was a casting call for people under 4’tall for a film. Warwick was only 11 years old and was 2’11” tall at the time. He made his first appearance in the Star Wars universe as Wicket, the inquisitive Ewok that was on-screen with Princess Leia. When Princess Leia crashes, she was supposed to be discovered by the Ewok known as Paploo. Kenny Baker was Paploo, along with R2-D2. On the day of filming, Kenny was sick, and George Lucas decided to put Wicket in the place of Paploo to befriend Leia. Warwick was just an 11-year old boy with very little acting experience outside of the little time spent in drama classes at Laine Theater Arts in Epsom. He approached his character of Wicket with the idea of being someone who lived a sheltered life in a forest and was inquisitive a...