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Stars share their Empire Srikes Back memories


To celebrate The Empire Strikes Back's 30th anniversary, Lucasfilm's senior editor Bonnie Burton shares her favorite quotes she has collected from her interviews with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back loving stars. Milo Ventimiglia is among them.

Ventimiglia told Burton: The Empire Strikes Back was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater. I remember waiting in line with my family when I was a little kid. We had pizzas and waited there for what felt like days. We went inside the theater -- the Cinedome in Orange County which was like a stadium-seating kind of theater. I remember sitting down and staring at the big red curtain thinking that people were going to come out onto the stage and perform. I had no idea what to expect. Then the curtain parted and I saw the Twentieth Century Fox logo and heard the trumpets, and I got chills. Darth Vader scared the hell out of me!

Ventimiglia gave Burton more thoughts about the movie: In Empire Strikes Back, everything was about Luke seeking to find about himself and so he had to go on this path of discovery where he met Yoda and really found out about the teachings of the Jedi. There was just something about it that was so fascinating to me as a kid. Given my background of the path I was put on at a young age and the family I was raised in, I really connected to it. Plus as a kid you want to be dazzled, so a big epic space battle is totally entertaining and fun to watch. The great part about movies is that you can relive that experience over and over.

Want to see what else Ventimiglia says about Star Wars? Read the entirety of his interview.

Be sure to check out what Ventimiglia's fellow The Empire Strikes Back fans--such as Simon Pegg, Seth Green, Hal Sparks, and Chris Jericho--say about the film too.