Guests
Stephen Costantino
Actor / Musician
A native of Hoboken, New Jersey, Stephen developed a passion for music at a young age, when he drew notice for playing guitar, singing & songwriting. It’s a pattern that has continued to this day.
Soon after moving to California in 1978, Stephen began studying martial arts in Los Angeles with Hugh Van Patten who introduced him to another young musician in one of his classes, Corey Dee Williams, son of the actor and painter Billy Dee Williams. They hit it off immediately and started a band they called Incognito.
Later it would reincarnate as Atmosphere. When Billy Dee was readying his character Lando Calrissian for movie “Return of the Jedi,” he asked Corey to be his stand-in when the film company went on location in Yuma, AZ.
Stephen was invited to come along so that he and Corey could continue to play and write music. Before long, Stephen was recruited for a part in the film; he was to portray a Gamorrean Guard in service to Jabba the Hut fighting Luke Skywalker in defense of his despicable master and the rest is history.
https://stephencostantino.org/
Juda Escalante
Specialty Costume / Painter
Juda has been working with costumes for over 20 years. After working on walk around character costumes, Juda moved into the prop industry, as a local 44 IATSE member, working on major film and television productions as a painter of weapons, vehicles and anything that is not a part of a costume. Working on such shows as The Mandalorian Season 1&2, Book of Boba Fett, Obi Wan Kenobi, Wakanda Forever, Thor Love and Thunder, Spiderman no way home, Suicide Squad, Picard Season 1&2, Dune, Orville Season 3, She-Hulk, Falcon & Winter Soldier, Hawkeye, Loki, Knives out The Glass Onion, Watchmen HBO, Westworld Season 2&3.
Now Juda is back in the costume industry, a Local 705 IATSE member as a Specialty Costume Manufacturer. Building and creating everything that involves molding, casting, sculpting, leather, painting etc. Anything that involves hard goods for a costume. Juda is a painter of any kind of surface and many different variations of paints, from polyurethane, acrylics to automotive. He has worked on The Mandalorian Season 3 and Ahsoka in the costume department. Painting has been a passion for Juda since a young teenage boy, and now getting to paint on some of the shows we all love, and millions of people get to watch, it has been an amazing journey for him as a painter.
Marcus Napuri
Specialty Costume Manufacturer
Marcus Napuri is a Specialty Costume Manufacturer in the Local 705 Costumer’s union. He is a Master sculptor, mold maker, and fabricator. Marcus has been working in the industry for 3 years and is best known for his part in the creation of Captian Enoch’s helmet, Sabine Wren’s helmet/armor, and the Armors jetpack for Ashoka Season 1 and The Mandalorian Season 3 under the direction of the late great Costume Designer, Shawna Trpcic. Before his work in the industry, Marcus spent 14 years honing his craft as NME Props creating custom-designed mandalorian helmets for Star Wars fans and cosplayers around the world.
Jose C
YouTuber / Content Creator
Joey hosts “The Padawan Collector” and “Star Wars Rewind” YouTube Channels where he talks about vintage toys and vintage Star Wars. The focus of his channel is to talk nostalgia with fans who lived in that era, but mainly it’s to educate new fans who don’t know the rich history of the toys and the movies.
Social Media: @padawancollector
Visit the website: The Padawan Collector