By the time Billy Dee Williams was approached to play Lando in the Star Wars franchise, he was concerned about being typecast as a 'romantic character.'
The famed sci-fi author behind the highly influential "Robot" and "Foundation" books proclaimed his love for Star Wars after an Empire Strikes Back screening.
Mark Hamill did most of his own stunts in Return of the Jedi, save for two key moments in the Star Wars film (including one from the Sarlacc pit sequence).