Warwick Davis on his first role as an Ewok in Star Wars

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  Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards,

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  a collection of funny and heartwarming moments from some of our many castaways.

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  Today's postcard comes from Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis.

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  In 2016, Warwick told Kirsty Young how he got his very first acting role in Star Wars Return

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  of the Jedi when he was just 11. I've got radio to thank for my career.

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  My grandmother was at home in her kitchen.

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  And she had the radio on, as she always did.

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  And an announcement came on from Lucasfilm, who makes Star Wars,

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  and it said, we're looking for short people to play Ewoks in the next instalment of Star Wars.

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  She heard the word Star Wars, and she heard the word short people.

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  And she didn't immediately tell my mum about this because she was worried

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  that she might offend her by saying they need short people.

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  And I thought of Warwick.

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  So she kind of held on to this information for a couple of days.

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  And eventually she did call my mum, who immediately called the studios.

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  And they said, well, we've got everyone we need.

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  We were inundated with calls.

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  I really, to this day, don't know what my mum said to them, but they agreed to meet me.

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  And just a couple of weeks later in the January of 1981. I found myself

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  on the set of Return of the Jedi alongside my on-screen heroes.

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