As you've no doubt heard, today is May the Fourth (be with you...), recognized as Star Wars Day. While the movies and TV shows are occasionally nitpicked (mostly unjustly so) for some of the acting choices and performances, there are some incredible performances as well.
George Lucas lobbied (unsuccessfully) for Frank Oz to receive a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Frank Oz, due to his nuanced performance as Yoda...but it was denied because "puppetry wasn't an art" (NOT my words!). And, I've mentioned previously about Joonas Suotamo's gut-wrenching reaction as Chewbacca to the death of Leia in Rise of Skywalker. And, Sam Witwer has been doing amazing work as Maul in his animated series.
We have eleven (soon to be twelve) theatrically-released movies, quite a number of episodic shows (both live-action and animated), a couple of Ewok movies, and a holiday special that is usually ignored. Lots of stuff to choose from. What acting performances in any of these stood out to you as being stellar (pun intended) and why?
