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Today I Learned that in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), pilot Wedge Antilles was played by three people. The first actor (Colin Higgins) was fired after one day on set, and the second actor (Denis Lawson) had a bad accent so a third actor (David Ankrum) dubbed all of Wedge's lines.

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