{"id":14489,"date":"2025-04-17T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=14489"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:56:26","slug":"exclusive-interview-with-michael-hirsh-and-clive-smith-on-fetts-animated-debut-ewoks-and-droids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fettpedia\/exclusive-interview-with-michael-hirsh-and-clive-smith-on-fetts-animated-debut-ewoks-and-droids\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Interview with Michael Hirsh and Clive Smith on Fett's Animated Debut, Ewoks, and Droids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"video-embed-wrap\"><div class=\"video-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exclusive Interview with Michael Hirsh and Clive Smith on Fett&#039;s Animated Debut, Ewoks, and Droids\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y78_LzPYVM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>BFFC&#8217;s Chelsey B. Coombs spoke with Nelvana co-founders Michael Hirsh and Clive Smith in advance of their panel at Star Wars Celebration Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Dive into their memories of Boba Fett&#8217;s animated debut plus their work with George Lucas on the Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at Celebration, save the date: this Saturday, April 19 at 10:30am \u2013 11:30am is their panel on the Story of the Faithful Wookiee, Ewoks, and Droids cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: you can watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/multimedia\/video\/1978-boba-fett-costume-screentest\/\">B&#038;W test Boba Fett footage they&#8217;re talking about from 1978<\/a> here on BFFC.<\/p>\n<p>Also: we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fettpedia\/exclusive-interview-with-holiday-special-boba-fett-animator-john-celestri\/\">interviewed &#8220;Holiday Special&#8221; Boba Fett animator John Celestri<\/a> about his role in this all back in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BFFC&#8217;s Chelsey B. Coombs spoke with Nelvana co-founders Michael Hirsh and Clive Smith in advance of their panel at Star...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":14490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-14489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fettpedia","tag-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14491,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions\/14491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}