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Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels wanted to quit his role as C-3PO on the first day of filming.

He said the uncomfortable costume made him want to quit from day one as he filmed scenes in the hot Tunisian desert.

He said: “I wanted to resign after the first day. It was so uncomfortable, it was so hot and I was all cut and scratched from the inside of the suit. Then the next day I would get back in and it cut and scratched me in all the same places. It was not much fun.

“Eventually, we cut the edges off, filed bits down, blocked off the sharp points and my wounds healed.”

Daniels added: “Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison [Ford] and me, we were all thinking the film was rubbish. It was only [the director] George Lucas who was there every day to make this wonderful vision of his.”