Lucas fielded this query at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, where Empire was getting an anniversary screening. His answer, basically, is that audiences, and especially children, are too dumb to ...

Yoda is one of the most cherished extraterrestrial characters in movie history, and part of that has to do with the peculiar ...

In 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda is voiced and puppeteered by Frank Oz, who also reprised the role in 1983’s Return of the Jedi, the third film in the series. Rocco Spaziani/Archivio ...

David Barclay was involved with Frank Oz’s team for the Yoda puppet in “The Empire Strikes Back.” He said he was enlisted to step in for some final shots needed for the movie, and after that ...

Yoda is introduced in 1980’s “The Empire Strikes Back” voiced by Frank Oz. He returns in 1983’s “Return of the Jedi,” all three movies in the prequel trilogy, and 2017’s “The Last ...

Yoda’s first appearance in the “Star Wars” franchise came in 1980 in “The Empire Strikes Back.” The character was voiced by Frank Oz, who also provided it for “Return of the Jedi,” t ...

as voiced by the legendary Frank Oz – charmingly disjointed and out of sequence. “Star Wars” mastermind George Lucas commented on this particular aspect of Yoda’s character at an anniversa ...

as voiced by the legendary Frank Oz – charmingly disjointed and out of sequence. “Star Wars” mastermind George Lucas commented on this particular aspect of Yoda’s character at an anniversa ...