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Tim Molloy

Clothes Makes the Wookie

20th Century Fox

OK, maybe these aren’t exactly “clothes,” but… you know what we mean. These fur pieces and the bandolier strap helped transform Peter Mayhew into everyone’s favorite co-pilot.

One of the artisans who brought Chewbacca to life was makeup artist Stuart Freeborn, whose other contributions to cinema included designing the apes in the 2001 “Dawn of Man” sequence and designing Yoda in the first Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back.

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