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The actor, 46, who has a rare form of dwarfism, was 11 when he made his screen debut in Return Of The Jedi. Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the hugely successful film franchise, worried that the youngster was overheating in his furry Ewok costume.

GETTYLUCASFILM/20TH CENTURY FOX Warwick Davis revealed how Carrie Fisher used to feed him when he played an Ewok in Star Wars

The 3ft 6in star told Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs: “I was fortunate to play the scene in the film where Princess Leia is discovered by an Ewok after she’s crashed on a speeder bike. “When we were playing that scene she used to get very concerned for me being in this quite hot costume so if they took the head off, she’d have some chocolate milk and some cookies there to sort of revive me.”

Star Wars: Then & Now Wed, December 28, 2016 With the first Star Wars movie being released in 1977, here are the many cast members then and now. Play slideshow Getty 1 of 12 Carrie Fisher played one of her biggest roles as Princess Leia in Star Wars. She filmed scenes for the latest Star Wars Episode VIII due out in 2017 before her tragic death on 27th December 2016

Davis also spoke fondly of working with David Bowie on the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. “He was amazing but so down to earth and so ordinary,” he said. “He would come on set in a brilliant costume with very extravagant 1980s big hair. “So he made quite an impression but underneath he was an ordinary chap called Dave.” Born in Epsom, Surrey, to average height parents, Davis’s early days were “touch and go”.

GETTY Carrie Fisher, who starred in the Return of the Jedi as Princess Leia, fed Davis milk and biscuits

He told presenter Kirsty Young: “I had pneumonia and it didn’t look good.” He met his wife Sam, who also has dwarfism, when they were both on stage in Snow White And The Seven Dwarves in 1988. Davis spoke of the couple’s heartbreak after their first child Lloyd died at nine days old in 1991. Their second child George was stillborn. They went on to have two healthy children, actress Annabelle, 19, and Harrison, 13, who both have dwarfism.

GETTY Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia worried that the youngster Davis was overheating in his furry Ewok

GETTY The actor, who has a rare form of dwarfism, was 11 when he made his debut in Return Of The Jedi