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"Anthony Daniels is the latest addition to this summer&amp;#039;s Star Wars Celebration in Essen, Germany. The British actor, who has portrayed protocol droid C-3PO since the first Star Wars film, told Digital Spy that he is excited to bring the official Lucasfilm event back to Europe.   &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve just been able to arrange to go, it was touch and go but I&amp;#039;ve moved things around a bit,&amp;quot; Daniels said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve done a lot in America and, of course, Japan and it&amp;#039;s rather good to actually bring it to Europe because Star Wars is a global experience. Europe&amp;#039;s quite important, especially to me, because I live in England so I travel to Europe a lot.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a proper convention because the budgeting behind it really makes it a destination worth going to. It&amp;#039;s definitely a family thing.&amp;quot; Star Wars icons including Carrie Fisher, Ian McDiarmid and Warwick Davis - who will act as the event&amp;#039;s celebrity host - will also be present at the event.  Daniels said that Fisher is &amp;quot;always a laugh&amp;quot;, and revealed that McDiarmid was &amp;quot;very naughty&amp;quot; and would crack jokes in-costume as Emperor Palpatine. &amp;quot;I used to tell him that he had more frocks than Padme, which he rather liked,&amp;quot; Daniels said. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s got a very wicked sense of humour and so we do have a lot of laughs together. So I&amp;#039;m very much looking forward to seeing him.&amp;quot;  Daniels added that he will be interviewed at the event by Warwick Davis, who he describes as &amp;quot;a British phenomenon&amp;quot; thanks to Harry Potter and Life&amp;#039;s Too Short. &amp;quot;I first met Warwick he was 16 playing an Ewok,&amp;quot; Daniels said. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s of course why Celebration is called celebration, because at the end of Return of the Jedi there&amp;#039;s this great celebration with the Ewoks. &amp;quot;Now, I don&amp;#039;t know what you feel about Ewoks but, hey, they liked C-3PO. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll be on stage, letting Warwick Davis try and persecute me, and who knows I may persecute him back. He&amp;#039;s become quite a force within British entertainment and indeed American entertainment, so it&amp;#039;s a great honour to be with him.&amp;quot; Star Wars Celebration Europe will take place in Essen, Germany, from July 26-July 28. Watch the trailer for Star Wars Celebration below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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