Star Wars without its mountain of costumes and masks of all kinds, it’s like Yin without Yang, alpha without omega. Hence a strange obsession of George Lucas, who did not want to see underwear in his saga!
There are many tasty anecdotes about the costumes of the first Star Wars trilogy. For example, the one concerning Peter Cushing, who, suffering excruciatingly from his feet, could not bear to wear the rigid boots of his character, Grand Moff Tarkin, commander of the Death Star. He therefore wore slippers in the majority of his scenes; scenes which were filmed closely, without showing his feet!
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One of them concerns a curious obsession of George Lucas, who did not want to see buttons or zippers on the costumes of his film because it was too close to the clothing style of Earth. An anecdote told by the author Brandon Alinger in his work on the costumes of the saga.
Even glasses were banned; a rule which, for the first time, The Mandalorian will break, through the character of Doctor Pershing in season 2. In its One Woman Show called Wishful Drinking, which she later adapted into a book, Carrie Fisher recounted that George Lucas had imposed the “no underwear” rule. And so, concerning her, no bra for her in the space under the costume.
When she asked him why, he told her that the lack of gravity in space made underwear useless, and that the way the body expands in space would have led to his character ending up suffocated by the pressure. of her bra… As the actress’ chest appeared too much under her costume, the team was forced to bandage it with adhesive tape. Not necessarily the most pleasant thing ever.