- "Erine's a genius and a talented mimic. He's done many voices for me over the years. For Poggle, I had this old idea that I'd first tried for Martians in a story I made on tape back in high school: You record some dialogue, play it backward, imitate what it sounds like in reverse, and record it again. Ernie was superb in imitating his own voice backward; we both laughed ourselves into tears as we tried to produce those sounds."
- ―Ben Burtt
Ernie Fosselius (born 1946) is a filmmaker who wrote and directed the first high-profile Star Wars fan film, Hardware Wars (1978). He later provided the voice of Malakili in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.[2] Fosselius also recorded dialogue for the Geonosian Poggle the Lesser for the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. He imitated the sounds of his dialogue played backwards and recorded Swahili-type clicking noises and the sound of him blowing on the edge of a piece of paper, which were all used by sound designer Ben Burtt to create Poggle's Geonosian language dialogue. Fosselius replaced[1] actor Marton Csokas in the role after he had been previously cast as the character.[3] Both actors were uncredited in the finished film.[4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Sounds of Star Wars
- ↑
"Red Five" — Star Wars Insider 150
- ↑ Marton Csokas, swimming with Hollywood sharks by Russell Baillie on The New Zealand Herald (archived from the original on November 13, 2020)
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
