Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Darryl J James (D.J.) from Star Wars 100 Interviews talks with Ailsa Berk. She is an English actor and choreographer who played the illusive Amanaman in Return of the Jedi. Listen to her exclusive story of on-set events inside Jabba's Palace, here. She also offers advice to anyone who would like to play a costumed character in a future Star Wars project.
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Find us on Facebook or by following Darryl J James, author of Trigger World: Elite, or even at Sci Fi Central Australia :)
Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:23 Meet Ailsa Berk
1:03 Inside Amanaman
2:03 How she got inside Amanaman
3:11 Was Ailsa Berk inside Amanaman for the big promo still?
4:38 Amanaman unmasked in rare shot
4:52 Who she became friends with on-set
5:24 Her George Lucas experience
6:00 The secret way of seeing from inside the Amanaman costume
6:20 Ailsa's observations of the 'Big 3' actors
7:04 Ailsa Berk's current career
7:45 Advice of how to get in to Star Wars
Join Darryl J James (DJ) who has interviewed over 100 cast and crew members from Star Wars movies and you can find them here on Star Wars 100 Interviews.
Please Like, Share, Subscribe & Hit the Bell button so you'll be notified of our interviews as soon as they're released. Thanks for visiting :)
Darryl J James (D.J.) from Star Wars 100 Interviews talks with Ailsa Berk. She is an English actor and choreographer who played the illusive Amanaman in Return of the Jedi. Listen to her exclusive story of on-set events inside Jabba's Palace, here. She also offers advice to anyone who would like to play a costumed character in a future Star Wars project.
If you enjoy finding out who the people behind the masks are, lets us know with a Subscribe and a Comment. We need to grow the channel to be able to continue to travel the world to film even more content and uncover more of these fine folk behind Star Wars. Currently, we are a tiny channel with huge content … wide access to the stars and much more content still to be edited and released. We even got lucky enough to film at Skywalker Ranch (see Matt Wood & Rick McCullum interviews for that content).
Find us on Facebook or by following Darryl J James, author of Trigger World: Elite, or even at Sci Fi Central Australia :)
Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:23 Meet Ailsa Berk
1:03 Inside Amanaman
2:03 How she got inside Amanaman
3:11 Was Ailsa Berk inside Amanaman for the big promo still?
4:38 Amanaman unmasked in rare shot
4:52 Who she became friends with on-set
5:24 Her George Lucas experience
6:00 The secret way of seeing from inside the Amanaman costume
6:20 Ailsa's observations of the 'Big 3' actors
7:04 Ailsa Berk's current career
7:45 Advice of how to get in to Star Wars
Join Darryl J James (DJ) who has interviewed over 100 cast and crew members from Star Wars movies and you can find them here on Star Wars 100 Interviews.
Please Like, Share, Subscribe & Hit the Bell button so you'll be notified of our interviews as soon as they're released. Thanks for visiting :)
