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在好莱坞，你永远不知道会偶遇谁。在一间摆满《星球大战》道具和木偶的仓库里，站在一艘安策兰人的飞船门口的，正是《曼达洛人与格古》的主演之一——格古本人（有些人称他为尤达宝宝），皮肤翠绿、满脸褶皱，可爱得不容置疑。
“《星球大战》里的可爱角色往往长得有点奇怪，”导演乔恩·费儒说道，“这不是‘迪士尼式可爱’，而是‘星战式可爱’。所以他长着奇怪的小绒毛、尖尖的小牙齿、满是褶皱的皮肤，还有爪子！”
正如费儒向我们展示的那样，这都是刻意设计的：“《星球大战》里的很多角色、服装和木偶都带有手工制作的质感，”他说。
乔恩·费儒导演与记者特雷西·史密斯在摆满太空船、木偶和服装的《星球大战》仓库中。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
在《星球大战》的宇宙中，费儒是一股不可忽视的力量。2019年，他打造了迪士尼+剧集《曼达洛人》，这是一部太空西部片，主角是一名持枪的赏金猎人，他保护着体型微小但能力强大的外星人格古。费儒的新电影正是改编自这部剧集。本周上映的《曼达洛人与格古》是近七年来首部登陆院线的《星球大战》电影。
在此向饰演曼达洛人的佩德罗·帕斯卡尔致歉，但他的搭档总能抢尽每一场戏的风头。
费儒表示，他从未预料到格古这个角色会如此火爆：“我们知道这会很受欢迎，”他说，“但我们没意识到它会成为一种现象。当我们在梅西感恩节大游行上看到格古的气球时，作为纽约人的我才真切感受到，‘哇！这真的又上了一个台阶。’整件事都像做梦一样。”
2021年11月25日，格古，又名尤达宝宝，现身于纽约市第95届梅西感恩节大游行。西奥·瓦戈/盖蒂图片社
对于在皇后区由父亲抚养长大的年轻费儒来说（他的母亲在他12岁时去世），好莱坞就像一个遥远的星系。“我不知道自己想做什么，”他说，“我不认为当演员、搞艺术或其他类似的工作是现实的可能性。”
那这曾是他的梦想吗？“我不这么认为，”他说，“我喜欢在学校戏剧里表演，但我生活的世界里根本没有这种可能性。幸运的是，我生命中有像我父亲这样的人。他是一名学校教师，但热爱自己的工作。我很早就明白，你应该对生活和事业抱有这样的态度。”
于是，他从大学辍学，开始在芝加哥学习即兴表演，26岁时获得了橄榄球经典电影《追梦赤子心》中的角色。“那真是一部鼓舞人心的电影，”他说，“我以为凭借这部作品被发现后，我的人生就不会再回头了。”但尽管他拿到了经纪人邀约并参加试镜，他说，“我的演艺事业并没有真正起色。”
他断断续续拿到了一些小角色（包括在《宋飞正传》里饰演一名小丑），但费儒似乎注定只能成为又一个在好莱坞挣扎的演员，直到他听从“写你所熟知的事物”的建议，将所有被拒绝的经历写成了他的第一部剧本：《全职浪子》，这部电影由他和好友文斯·沃恩共同出演。“这真的记录了我们作为失业演员在好莱坞的生活状态，”费儒说，“很多台词要么来自我们的真实对话，要么灵感来源于此。这部电影没赚多少钱，但它为我们很多人打开了一扇门，让我们能以更有意义的方式追求自己的事业。”
费儒获得了足够的资源，开始转型导演。由威尔·法瑞尔主演的《精灵小王子》是他第二部执导的长片电影。“当时我们的期望是，这部电影能否跻身《圣诞故事》《红鼻子驯鹿鲁道夫》或《花生漫画》这类每年都会重播、成为节日传统的经典电影之列？”他说，“不仅是在美国，而是全世界的人都知道这部电影。”
《精灵小王子》的成功为他带来了另一项重量级导演工作：2008年的《钢铁侠》，小罗伯特·唐尼在片中饰演爱开玩笑的亿万富翁托尼·斯塔克。当被问及他的即兴表演技巧是否在《钢铁侠》中发挥了作用时，费儒回答：“当然，一直都是。因为在电影里，你只需要一个瞬间、一个眼神的闪烁、一句意想不到的台词或是一个反应，就能为作品注入生命力。”
乔恩·费儒导演与佩德罗·帕斯卡尔（饰演丁·贾林）在《曼达洛人与格古》的片场。尼古拉·古德/卢卡斯电影有限公司
有人认为，费儒将尖端科技与深受观众喜爱的角色相结合的风格，让他成为了《奇幻森林》这类大制作特效大片的好莱坞安全选择之一。他说：“尤其是在特效驱动类型的电影中，你需要融入自发性、灵感和人性，因为归根结底，人们只关心角色本身。他们关注的是人与人之间的互动、那些情感关系。”
而这种人与人之间的联结（甚至存在于外星生物之间），正是费儒认为《曼达洛人与格古》能够成功的原因，片中曼达洛人和格古之间逐渐形成了父子般的关系。“父子关系一直是《星球大战》的重要组成部分，”他说，“这是《星球大战》中最积极的父子关系之一，而讽刺的是，他们之间没有任何血缘关系。但这是一个主动选择组成的家庭，而《星球大战》始终围绕着家人团聚展开。”
毕竟，现年59岁的费儒仍记得和家人一起观看原版《星球大战》的场景。通过这部电影，他希望其他家庭也能创造属于自己的回忆。
他说，小时候在影院看《星球大战》时，他根本无法想象有一天自己能执导一部《星球大战》电影。“能有机会在大银幕上拍摄《星球大战》，感觉就像获得了在世界大赛中投球的机会，”费儒说，“我很兴奋能向全新的观众群体介绍《星球大战》。”
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The Mandalorian and Grogu director Jon Favreau: “‘Star Wars’ has always been about families coming together”
May 17, 2026 / 10:10 AM EDT / CBS News
In Hollywood, you never know who you might run into. In a warehouse filled with “Star Wars” props and puppets, standing at the door of an Anzellan ship, was one of the stars of “The Mandalorian and Grogu”: Grogu himself (Baby Yoda to some), green, wrinkly, and undeniably cute.
“The cute stuff in ‘Star Wars’ tends to be a little weird-looking,” said director Jon Favreau. “It’s not like ‘Disney cute,’ it’s ‘Star Wars cute.’ And so, he’s got weird little hairs and sharp little teeth in there and wrinkly skin, and claws!”
As Favreau showed us, that’s by design: “There’s an analog, handmade feel to a lot of the characters and a lot of the costumes and a lot of the puppets from ‘Star Wars,’” he said.
Director Jon Favreau with correspondent Tracy Smith in the “Star Wars” warehouse filled with spaceships, puppets and costumes. CBS News
In the “Star Wars” universe, Favreau is a force. In 2019 he created the Disney+ show “The Mandalorian,” a space western with a blaster-wielding bounty hunter who protects the tiny but powerful alien Grogu. Favreau’s new movie is based on the show. “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which comes out this week, is the first “Star Wars” film to hit theaters in nearly seven years.
And apologies to Pedro Pascal (who plays the Mandalorian), but his costar tends to steal every scene.
Favreau says he didn’t anticipate how much the character of Grogu would blow up: “We knew it would be exciting,” he said. “We didn’t realize quite what a phenomenon it would be. And then when we saw the balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, that’s when it kind of – as a New Yorker – it really hit me. Like, ‘Wow! This has really hit another level.’ The whole thing’s surreal.”
Grogu, a.k.a. Baby Yoda, is seen during the 95th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nov. 25, 2021 in New York City. Theo Wargo/Getty Images
To a young Favreau growing up in Queens with his father (his mother died when he was 12), Hollywood really felt like a galaxy far, far away. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do,” he said. “I didn’t think being an actor or doing artwork or any of that was a realistic possibility.”
Was it even in his dreams? “I don’t think so,” he said. “I liked doing it, like, in a school play, but I just didn’t live in a world where that was a possibility. Fortunately I had, you know, people in my life like my dad. He was a schoolteacher but loved what he did. And I learned early on that you should expect that of a life and of a career.”
So, he dropped out of college and started taking improv classes in Chicago, and at age 26 was cast in the football classic “Rudy.” “It was a really inspiring film,” he said. “I thought, once I was discovered with that, that you wouldn’t look back.” But despite getting an agent and going on auditions, he said, “it didn’t really pop for me.”
He got a few small parts here and there (including playing a clown on “Seinfeld”), but Favreau seemed destined to be just another struggling Hollywood actor, until he took the advice “write what you know,” and turned all that rejection into his first screenplay: “Swingers,” which became a movie with his buddy Vince Vaughan. “It was really a snapshot of where we were living in Hollywood as out-of-work actors,” Favreau said. “A lot of the dialogue either came from or was inspired by conversations that we had had. Movie didn’t make a lot of money, but it opened a door for a lot of us to pursue careers in a more meaningful way.”
Favreau had enough juice to start directing. “Elf,” starring Will Ferrell, was just his second feature behind the camera. “The hope was, could this be something that could join the pantheon of other movies like ‘Christmas Story’ or ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ or ‘Charlie Brown,’ that show every year, that become part of the tradition?” he said. “Not just here, but around the world, people know that film.”
The success of “Elf” led to another huge directing job: 2008’s “Iron Man,” with Robert Downey Jr as the wise-cracking billionaire Tony Stark. Asked if his improv skills came into play with “Iron Man,” Favreau replied, “Yeah, always. Because in film, you just need a moment, you just need a twinkle of the eye or an unexpected delivery of a line or a reaction, and that breathes life into this.”
Director Jon Favreau with Pedro Pascal (Din Djarin) on the set of “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” Nicola Goode/Lucasfilm Ltd.
Some say Favreau’s style – mixing cutting-edge technology with crowd-pleasing characters – made him one of Hollywood’s safest bets for big-budget spectacles like “The Jungle Book.” He said, “Especially when you have a very effects-driven genre, you want to have moments of spontaneity, inspiration, humanity, ’cause at the end of the day, people just care about people. That’s what they focus on: That human interaction, those emotional relationships.”
And that human connection (even between aliens) is what Favreau thinks makes “The Mandalorian and Grogu” click, given the father-son relationship that develops between the Mandalorian and Grogu. “Father-son relationships have always been a big part of ‘Star Wars,’” he said. “This is one of the most positive father-son relationships in ‘Star Wars,’ and, ironically, they’re not related in any way. But it is a family of choice, and ‘Star Wars’ has always been about families coming together.”
After all, Favreau, who’s 59, still remembers watching the original “Star Wars” with his family. With this movie, he’s hoping other families get to make memories, too.
He says when he was a kid watching “Star Wars” in a theater, the thought that he would direct a “Star Wars” film himself one day would have been “unfathomable.” “To get the opportunity to do ‘Star Wars’ for the big screen, it feels like you’re getting a shot to pitch in the World Series,” Favreau said. “I’m excited to introduce a whole new audience to ‘Star Wars.’”
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