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Frank Oz Talks Yoda and ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ in New Interview

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    In a new interview with The Guardian, Frank Oz opened up about his career as a puppeteer in Hollywood, including his work as the voice and soul of Yoda in the Star Wars movies. According to him, in The Empire Strikes Back script, Yoda originally spoke in a very colloquial way, with that odd syntax structure barely present in his lines. He said:



    The Yoda voice is almost as iconic as the character himself, and with that comes a large amount of impersonators. For that reason, one would think the person who came up with it, and has been voicing him all these years, would be tired of people coming up to him with impressions of the voice. Apparently, that's not the case:



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    Frank Oz returned to puppeteer and voice Yoda for The Last Jedi and lent his voice for a few sentences in The Rise of Skywalker. The icon has been one of the most beloved figures in the Star Wars franchise since he was brought in for The Empire Strikes Back. While he's not officially attached to any Star Wars projects right now (that fans know of), hopefully we haven't seen the last of Frank Oz's contributions as Yoda. Maybe in Obi-Wan Kenobi? One can only hope.



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    "It's not the voice--it's the soul."

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    Yeah Oz doesn't really take voice acting roles because he doesn't see himself as a "voice actor." He creates characters.
     
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    I like Frank Oz.
     
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    Indeed... it definitely feels like a slight to have overlooked him for any more Muppets or Sesame Street work, he's given so much to those characters.
     
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