The hidden cameo of George Lucas in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace has finally been confirmed and revealed

For years, Star Wars Fans have hired George Lucas’Only the appearance on the screen in its galaxy has arrived Revenge of Sithwhere he briefly presented himself as the baron with blue skin.

But it turns out that he made his first “cameo” much earlier, but not in the way you would expect. Thanks to an Easter egg lost for some time that has just been confirmed, Lucas has surrendered quietly The ghost threat All this time.

The revelation comes from Star Wars The journalist Clayton Sandell, who recently spoke with the former painter Ilm Matte Caroenen “Jett” Green.

During their conversation, Green eventually made a longtime voice rest: which somewhere The ghost threatLucas’ face was secretly hidden in the scenario. And it turns out, the voice is true.

Lucas never takes one step in front of a camera for this aspect. Instead, his face was slightly incorporated into an opaque painting used to extend the background of the Royal Palace of The Eed.

Green explained: “I decided to take a photo of George and I put it on this plaque.” He had worked on a shot in which Padmé and his guards rush through the building during the climatic battle of the film.

A section of the arch on a large window seemed too empty, so he decided to add the face of George Lucas. He said: “I thought: ‘Well, it will be nice. When you reduce it, her face is just a blur.'”

Of course, toy something like that in a Star Wars The film did not fly under the radar forever. When Green showed the painting to a supervisor, Lucas himself had to be brought to approve it.

Green recalled: “George is really silent. He looks at him and says “Oh, bad, bad”. I said: ‘Yes, but it’s you! It’s your face. And then there is the silence again.

“And I’m only sitting there with everyone. And for some reason, I can’t describe the feeling, but I knew I wouldn’t have put in trouble. And then George says: ‘Okay. Leave it inside. ‘”

And with this, a new piece of Star Wars Curiosity was born. It may not be obvious as its turn as Papanoida, but it is probably a much more suitable cameo … Lucas, incorporated forever in the great architecture of his universe.