C-3PO gets the VIP treatment with a matching gold umbrella, while Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) wait in the sun in a new behind-the-scenes photo from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
The snap is part of Vanity Fair's extensive preview, with behind-the-scenes photos from the set, including the first look at Keri Russell's Zorri Bliss.
The iconic droid C-3PO is one again played by Anthony Daniels, the only actor to appear in all nine of the primary Skywalker saga Star Wars films, and he's clearly being treated quite well.
VIP C-3PO: C-3PO gets the VIP treatment with a matching gold umbrella, while Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) wait in the sun in a new behind-the-scenes photo from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was heavily guarded, with Daniels revealing he didn't actually get his hands on the script until shortly before filming was set to begin.
He also revealed that the first line he was supposed to say - 'Common emblem' - he simply could not say, for whatever reason.
'My first line would not go in my head,' Daniels said. 'The line that I couldn't say was two words: 'common emblem.' Common emblem, common emblem—I would say them thousands of times. My wife would say it back. I just couldn't say them!'
C-3Po and friends: C-3PO was briefly seen in the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser trailer released at Star Wars Celebration in mid-April, on a speeding craft with Finn and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac)
Daniels also teased that his beloved protocol droid character, who is fluent in over six million forms of communication, does something quite unexpected in The Rise of Skywalker, but he wouldn't say what it was.
'He keeps his clothes on. It's not like he suddenly does this but...,' Daniels cryptically added.
C-3PO was briefly seen in the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser trailer released at Star Wars Celebration in mid-April, on a speeding craft with Finn and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac).
Unexpected: Daniels also teased that his beloved protocol droid character, who is fluent in over six million forms of communication, does something quite unexpected in The Rise of Skywalker, but he wouldn't say what it was
Another star from the original trilogy makes his return to the Star Wars universe, Billy Dee Williams' Lando Calrissian, who is seen in the trailer flying his old ship, the Millennium Falcon.
Calrissian first appeared in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, an old friend of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) who was the original owner of the Millennium Falcon before Han won it in a game of
