00:00Beck. It's been an eventful day at the National Eisteddfod. For the first time ever, the original
00:05Star Wars movie from 1977 is to be dubbed into Welsh. The announcement was made on the
00:12mice, so let's rejoin Jen. Hiya. Yes, it does sound a little bit unlikely, doesn't it, Tomas,
00:20but there really were actual stormtroopers on the mice earlier, all the way from the
00:25Death Star to Llanthod to sample a bit of Welsh culture. So what were they doing here?
00:29Well, as Tomas explained, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the original Star Wars film
00:34has been dubbed into Welsh. Our intergalactic correspondent, Sarah Davydd, went along for
00:40the big announcement about the project. The National Eisteddfod brings together people
00:46from all over Wales and from galaxies far, far away. People are used to seeing druids wandering
00:53around the mice, but I don't think people have ever seen stormtroopers in the Eisteddfod
00:58before. Now there here is a part of a special announcement in partnership between S4C, the
01:28voice will be playing hand solo and Mark Lewis-Jones will be taking on the voice of Darth Vader.
01:33I'm learning.
01:34That's brilliant. Do you think it will help you along your journey learning?
01:38Yeah, I think absolutely. Having something familiar, but in, you know, a language that
01:43I'm trying to learn will really help me to follow the story because I know what's going
01:46on, but also understand the new vocabulary through that.
01:50Oh, it's brilliant. I mean, there's so many different words like Jedi and things that are
01:53going to be kind of, you know, in Welsh, so it's going to be fantastic. And I think it's
01:56really exciting. So yeah, looking forward to it.
01:58And it was Disney who came knocking. They wanted to recreate the classic in a native language
02:04as a part of the 50th anniversary since the release of the film. And a fan since he was
02:09a child, the First Minister was even starstruck by the stormtroopers. The Welsh Government have
02:14made a contribution of £100,000 to this project with Creative Wales.
02:19Sometimes having a big name brand is a means of bringing people to West Poderach who maybe
02:24wouldn't watch us otherwise. So Star Wars will do the same job as something like the voice
02:28of the TV format for the singing competition at Lhais. That has brought new audiences. That's
02:33proven that it's able to do that. So I'm hoping Star Wars will do something quite similar in terms
02:37of audience, but also there's a potential that it'll make a lot of noise of what S4 do reckon
02:41about Wales beyond our borders and bring new funding partners in to fund future feature films.
02:46So the hope is that on Christmas Day, the force will be on S4C's side, making an impact on audiences
02:53here in Wales and beyond.
02:58Sarah David reporting there, and I'm very pleased to say that I have two members of the Welsh
03:03Star Wars cast with me now. We have C-3PO, otherwise known as Llywyd Evans, and we have Luke Skywalker,
03:09otherwise known as Ossian Morgan. Llywyd, you're a massive Star Wars fan.
03:13Yeah, you know, I was born in 71, so when it came out I was six years old, so lived
03:18through
03:18the first three movies, and it's been an honour and a dream to be involved in this project.
03:24Yeah, what was your reaction then when you found out you'd been cast?
03:26Well, I thought it was a joke to be starting with, but the fact that it's been done in
03:30Welsh is amazing, and my character C-3PO is apparently fluent in six million languages,
03:38but now he's fluent in six million and one because he's speaking Welsh.
03:41Perfect. And Ossian, you're younger than the film, so how much of a Star Wars fan are you?
03:47Oh, I was an enormous Star Wars fan. I think everyone has a favourite franchise, but for
03:51me, Star Wars has always been superior. And to play Luke Skywalker, it's an honour of a
03:56lifetime. What Mark Hamill did was incredible, his performance was just exemplary, and for
04:01me to be able to go into that character's shoes was a real honour.
04:04And you've both had to keep this very quiet, haven't you? That's been difficult.
04:07Yeah, we've known for about three, four months, I'm sure.
04:10It's been a while, yeah.
04:11So we've been told to shut up for four months, which has been very hard, because I have a
04:1412-year-old son who's obsessed with Star Wars, from all the figures, like in Star Wars,
04:20he's got so many lightsabers, so it's been tough. But today, the secret was revealed, he was
04:25overjoyed.
04:26So a relief to be able to talk about it.
04:28Yeah, absolutely.
04:28Tell us a little bit about the dubbing process, because you're in there on your own, aren't
04:31you?
04:32Yeah, it's quite a challenge, because what you want to do is you want to try and emulate
04:35the actor, the actual original performance. But once you get it, and we had an amazing
04:41director as well, who came down from America, Ellen, and she was fantastic. And once you
04:46get it, there's a real relief there, it's fantastic, it's a really nice feeling.
04:49I do think there's an appetite for this kind of thing, do you think it'll go down well?
04:52Well, you know, hopefully, you know, because they did two versions first in Native American
04:58languages, then they approached S4C to do a Welsh version. So, well, yeah, there's enough
05:03Welsh language fans out there, so let's see what happens.
05:06Excellent, and it'll be on S4C in November. Looking forward to it very much. The only way
05:11that I can say goodbye to you now is, may the force be with you. Thank you both. Cheers
05:18and good luck. Thank you, Jen.
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