Na verdade, é um pouco mais complicado (e interessante)
De acordo com o artigo original do Starwars.com no Wicket Warwick Davis foi escalado para interpretar um Ewok de fundo que a tripulação nomeara Warrick. Quando o ator que interpretava Wicket (Kenny Baker) ficou doente, Warwick, que chamou a atenção do diretor devido à sua habilidade de passar a língua pelo orifício de ventilação da máscara e sua marca registrada, foi então recrutado como um novo personagem. quem eles nomearam " Wicket [/] Warrick " e o nome ficou preso.
Behind the Scenes
The Ewok that befriends Leia was not always called Wicket, and did not always look the way he did. This principal Ewok was to be played by Kenny Baker, who also played Artoo-Detoo. On the day that Wicket's first scene was to be filmed, Baker took ill. Instead, the filmmakers used another Ewok, who was up to that point was named "Warrick."
This new Ewok was played by a bright 11-year old named Warwick Davis. His character became Wicket W. Warrick, and Baker's Ewok was renamed Paploo, and later became the Ewok who would steal the speeder bike. Evidence of this change remains in the Marvel Comics adaptation of Jedi, which identifies the speeder thief as Wicket.
Você também pode estar interessado em notar que a novela oficial (escrita após Warwick ter sido lançada, mas antes produção principal ter sido completada e Baker substituído) contém um ewok chamado Warwick . Parece muito provável que este ewok também tenha sido nomeado após Warwick Davis.
Flattened down in the bushes on the ridge with the strike force were several Ewoks, including Wicket, Paploo, Teebo, and Warwick. The rest stayed lower, behind the knoll, out of sight.
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi - Official Novelisation