An Oscar-Winning Star Wars crew member revealed in a new interview that he dropped acid while working on Return of the Jedi.
“I took LSD when I was working on ‘Return of the Jedi’ . . . and it’s fine,” Phil Tippett said in a Vice video interview of his film editing career released earlier last week.
“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.”
Tippet is best known for his Star Wars stop-motion work including the AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back and several aliens throughout the Star Wars franchise for which he won a Special Achievement Academy Award in 1984.
The filmmaker also designed dinosaurs for Jurassic Park and even worked on several scenes in the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
