Story
The film is narrated in a tongue-in-cheek E! True Hollywood Story style, giving the ups and downs of Artoo's life, from his humble upbringings in England to his successful life as an actor. The mockumentary achieves this by using interviews by those who "know" him, such as: George Lucas, Ewan McGregor, Francis Ford Coppola, Richard Dreyfuss (who believes Artoo to be "a schmuck"), Samuel L. Jackson, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Bitsie Tulloch and more.
It introduces his human "family," complete with a brother and a sister. His birth name, "Reginald Dillingham," was changed for show biz. Lucas met R2 attending college at the University of Arizona working as an ash can. As it is revealed, Star Wars wasn’t his first role, as he had had many leading parts in plays and movies throughout the 1960s. R2 was originally invisioned by Coppola to play Michael Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather, however the studio didn't see it and the part went to Al Pacino. He is shown to be quite the ladies man, with plenty of bikini clad women riding in his limo. R2 is said to have a human girlfriend who fears she might be pregnant. After the success of Return of the Jedi, the shortage of new work sends him into a depression in the 1980s. He goes so far down the spiral, and in an attempt to prove his worthiness, he bungee jumps and is nearly killed when the cord breaks. In 1998, his career then is reinvigorated when asked by George Lucas to do Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
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