Despite seemingly being done playing C-3PO after Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, franchise legend Anthony Daniels has teased that fans haven't seen the last of the dithering droid.
Speaking on The View, Daniels discussed his Episode IX arc and confessed, "Oh, he's not over. I said to J.J. when we were filming, 'Maybe it's time to put 3PO to sleep, to give him an end,' and he said, 'Not on my watch.'"
Daniels has been a staple of Star Wars since way back in 1997's A New Hope, playing the part as C-3PO in all nine of the main Skywalker Saga movies. Daniels also appeared in Rogue One and voiced the character in the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Resistance and Star Wars Rebels.
C-3PO's demise was teased in the marketing of The Rise of Skywalker and made fans believe he would be one of the movie's big casualties. Instead, his iconic line of "Taking one last look, sir, at my friends" was the droid sacrificing his memory to decode a Sith message that would lead the heroes to Palpatine on Exegol. By the time the credits rolled, C-3PO had his memory restored by R2-D2's data banks and carried on with his life alongside his long-time companion.