{"id":86127,"date":"2024-02-02T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1655546"},"modified":"2024-02-02T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T21:04:20","slug":"how-the-today-show-spoiled-multiple-empire-strikes-back-plot-twists-in-a-bizarre-1980-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/how-the-today-show-spoiled-multiple-empire-strikes-back-plot-twists-in-a-bizarre-1980-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"How the \u2018Today Show\u2019 spoiled multiple \u2018Empire Strikes Back\u2019 plot twists in a bizarre 1980 interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For three years, the public was forced to wait for the sequel of the groundbreaking blockbuster sci-fi smash hit called Star Wars<\/em> until, finally, in May of 1980, they could storm the theaters and watch The Empire Strikes Back<\/a><\/em>. As we now all know, the sequel lives up to the hype.<\/p>\n

However, shortly after it hit theaters, Billy Dee Williams<\/a><\/strong> was a guest on the Today Show<\/em> and discussed what is was like playing the debonair Lando Calrissian. The four-minute interview is rather disastrous, as it becomes a fumbling comedy of errors and spilled beans. <\/p>\n

The disaster began forming the previous month when, in May of 1980, The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> was released and NBC hired actress Mariette Hartley to co-host the show for 3 weeks in June to cover for Jane Pauley, who was taking a vacation.<\/p>\n

Hartley was scheduled to interview Billy Dee Williams<\/a> a couple weeks after Empire<\/em> premiered. Perhaps because of those two weeks, and because it was falsely assumed that every single American already saw the film, Hartley did not attempt to keep secret the plotline twists<\/a> that Williams\u2019 character goes through in the film. Keep in mind, there was no internet in 1980 and the only newspaper reviews that came out at that time kept the secrets of the film with only some hinting at Calrissian being in the middle of a Cloud City mess.<\/p>\n

By the way, unlike Hartley, I shall warn you all that I might give away spoilers.<\/p>\n

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