An Oscar-winning “Star Wars” animator has admitted in a new interview that he dropped acid while completing “Return of the Jedi.”
Everett Collection“I took LSD when I was working on ‘Return of the Jedi’ . . . and it’s fine,” Phil Tippett said in a Vice video profile of his film career released on Thursday.
“It was, like, very calming,” he said. “And so I decided to go back to work. When I walked into the blue-screen stage, it was like, ‘Ahhh.’ I took way too much.”
Tippett’s best-known “Star Wars” stop-motion and design work includes the AT-AT walkers in “The Empire Strikes Back” and the aliens in Jabba’s palace in “Return of the Jedi,” for which he won a Special Achievement Academy Award in 1984.
The 64-year-old Californian also designed dinosaurs for “Jurassic Park” and a brief stop-motion sequence in the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
