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"Tarkin" geral foi strongmente inspirado pelo desempenho de Cushing:
De entrevista Luceno com SciFiNow
Q: Did you find yourself revisiting earlier Cushing performances to capture his mannerisms?
JL: Absolutely, yeah. I grew up watching... those were Hammer movies if I’m not mistaken, those great old horror movies that I remember him in. Everything from Revenge Of Frankenstein and Hound Of The Baskervilles – he was even in [an Amicus] Dr Who film, at one point! So all of my early filmgoing, he was a regular person who I saw on screen.
I did try and make use of that in terms of helping flesh out his personality, his mannerisms, his general style.
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Luceno em geral parece ser muito detalhista quando se trata de continuidade:
Q: You weave a lot of continuity into your stories. Is that easy or hard? Do you spend a lot of time on Wookieepedia or the Holocron?
Luceno: When I first became involved with the franchise thirteen years ago, I made it a goal to catch up on everything that had been written up to that point and to stay current on every book that came out. Plus I have one of those brains that is capable of keeping a lot of stories in place. So the continuity references were already there. I just felt like I inhabited this big world where all these events have taken place. It’s the history of the Star Wars galaxy. And I enjoy emphasizing continuity. It’s not everybody’s cup of tea to find all those references in a book, but for me they make the world a bit more realistic.