C-3PO was originally meant to be a car salesman

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Okay, not literally. But in the early stages of production, the prissy protocol droid we know and love was supposed to have an "oily, car salesman-type dialect" according to actor Anthony Daniels. Luckily, the actor opted for a closer-to-home, "snooty British butler" accent and managed to convince George Lucas otherwise. Fittingly, C3P0 was later used to advertise Mitsubishi cars in Japan, so he did get to flog a few motors after all.

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