Please Don’t Ask Joel Edgerton to Sign His ‘Star Wars’ Corpse, That’s Not Even His Body

If you’re in a Star Wars movie, chances are very good an action figure will be made of your character. And with your place in memorabilia history secured, you will inevitably, at some point, be asked to sign that action figure. Fans love autographs! They increase the item’s value and make for an extra-cool conversation piece on top of that. Even if the figure is something… ghoulish and not quite accurate to the specific actor, as Joel Edgerton has found.

In a recent Collider interview, Edgerton—promoting new drama film Train Dreams alongside Felicity Jones, who’s coincidentally also a Star Wars universe veteran—was asked about the most bizarre item he’s ever been asked to sign.

Jones was asked the same question, and she’s had it easy, apparently; the Rogue One star has mostly been asked to sign Funko Pops (“funny little kind of squat dolls,” as she described them) of Jyn Erso.

But Edgerton? “Oh, god,” he told Collider. “The one for me was someone had one of those boxed-up things, and it was the burned-up Uncle Owen, like the charred remains of Uncle Owen. I didn’t even know, at that point, that it existed.”

Star Wars has released many, many, many toys over the past five decades, but a “burned-up Uncle Owen”—capturing the aftermath of the sad scene on Tatooine where the moisture farmer and his wife, Beru, met a fiery end after spending years raising a certain Luke Skywalker in secret—could only have come from a custom creator, rather than official Lucasfilm channels.

And we applaud the fan with the gumption to present Edgerton with a charred corpse for his autograph, even if it’s not quite screen-accurate: Owen met his end in A New Hope, of course, in which he was portrayed by Phil Brown. Brown passed away in 2006, though, so Edgerton is definitely a solid second choice.

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