1977's Star Wars was among those jobs, just one of dozens of enduring performances from the man who is also remembered for his pioneering work in horror films and many onscreen appearances with close friend Christopher Lee.
So you either buckle under and say, 'that's it,' and give up, or you have to go on and run the race before you, which is set before you."Īfter Helen's death, he threw himself into his work - accepting every job he could to keep busy and fill that void. "It's more than three quarters of your own self taken from you. I knew I'd never have the courage to do it, but you can't have the experience and the love of a person such as Helen and then suddenly it's not there anymore," Cushing said. So we wouldn’t do this if the estate had objected or didn’t feel comfortable with this idea.Cushing was fascinated with nature and the changing of seasons, which give us examples of birth, death and rebirth.ĭuring the candid conversation, he spoke about the sorrow he suffered after his wife's death ("I didn't lose her…she's just elsewhere," he said.) and he suggested he considered suicide for a time. Knoll added: “This was done in consultation and cooperation with his estate. We know that Peter Cushing was very proud of his involvement in Star Wars and had said as much, and that he regretted that he never got a chance to be in another Star Wars film because George had killed off his character.” I think this work was done with a great deal of affection and care. Knoll said: “Essentially, we’re using the computer graphics as a tool to alter his appearance.”Īs for the ethics of working with images of an actor who died in 1994, Knoll said: “We weren’t doing anything that I think Peter Cushing would’ve objected to.
On the first point, Knoll said: “There are people that have said quite vehemently that it looks terrible and looks like a video game, and I will assert that that is not the case.” The film-makers used actor Guy Henry as a digital stand-in for Cushing, and employed motion-capture and a facial-expression tracker to animate footage and photographs of Cushing.
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