“Certainly, Episode II was the most challenging of the three films.” Trisha Biggar behind the scenes of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. “He really felt that the scenes should have been shot chronologically as much as possible because of the emotional content of the film, to allow for the actors to respond in that way.” Then director George Lucas arrived, and “the schedule turned on its head completely,” Biggar recalls. And after weeks of prepping at Leavesden Studios as the pre-production crew waited for Moulin Rouge to wrap in the studio space they would require in Australia, Biggar and her team touched down in Sydney about eight weeks later than expected. The characters she had helped to introduce to the world in Episode I had aged 10 years and were evolving in other ways, as Padmé took on the role of senator and explored her personal growth as a young woman falling in love with a Jedi and Anakin inched closer to the brink of destruction. “Certainly, Episode II was the most challenging of the three films,” Biggar tells during a break from working on her current project, Outlander, in Scotland, on a crew that still includes a handful of crafters she met at Lucasfilm.Īttack of the Clones’ new digital camera technology, a first for a Hollywood blockbuster to be entirely shot in, changed the way fabrics appeared on screen.
Fresh off a brief stint working on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles with Lucasfilm, she led a department of about 60 costuming professionals to create Queen Amidala’s opulent wardrobe and devolve the Jedi robes that had first been introduced in Star Wars: A New Hope.īut Biggar’s biggest challenge in the eight years she spent working on the trilogy of films chronicling Anakin Skywalker’s transformation into Darth Vader came with Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. To celebrate the movie’s 20 th anniversary, presents Clones at 20, a special series of interviews, editorials, and more.Ĭostume designer Trisha Biggar joined the production staff defining the look of the Star Wars prequel films in 1997 with an affinity for history and a pedigree in costuming for the theater. The middle chapter of the prequel trilogy, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, arrived May 16, 2002.
From evolving technologies and characters to a schedule that shifted like the sands of Tatooine, the legendary costumer tells about her unforgettable experience on Episode II.
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