The Force Runs Strong In This Family: Jett, Amanda & Katie

"Walking down that long hallway was not fun because I kept getting stepped on," Katie laughs. "I was trying to be serious and people kept stepping on me, then my sister got stepped on, so it added a lot more humor to the scene."

While on set, Amanda said she looked to Katie to relax her nerves about being on camera. "I was really, really nervous and I didn't want it to be obvious, you know, as the boss's daughter," Amanda confesses. "I wanted to be professional but I was nervous about acting. I was like, 'I don't know if I can do this.' Katie kind of knew everybody and she is like exactly how I was on the first one, only much better behaved. And so, she introduced me to everyone and let me follow her around, and just made it a lot more comfortable for me to get into it. By the time I had the day where I got to talk, it was a lot easier."

"It was fun because it was her first day," Katie remembers about her sister. "She didn't really know what to do and I had already been there a day. I was in my blue makeup and she just kept laughing at me because she totally thinks I'm going to be an actress, which I'm not! I think it was fun for her and for me because we've never really had a scene where we've done stuff together. Being in the scene with Amanda was really cool because she lightened it up a little bit, and didn't make it so hardcore. It was fun to have my sister there for awhile."

Katie and Amanda weren't the only Lucas siblings ready for their camera close-up. Their younger brother Jett rose to the occasion by playing the young Jedi Padawan learner Zett Jukassa who tries to fight off elite clone troopers as Bail Organa watches from the landing dock at the recently-attacked Jedi Temple.

Lucas had written a brief scene in the script for a heroic 10-year old Padawan (Jett's age during principal photography) who cuts through clone troopers. For this part, Jett trained with Stunt Coordinator and Swordmaster Nick Gillard to perfect his moves against the digital foes.

"Every Friday, I would go up to the Stunts area and at first I would just hang out there," Jett explains. "Then after a couple of weeks Kyle Rowling, one of the stunt guys, started teaching me my moves. But before I really started getting my moves down, they just taught me basic stuff like twirling your sword. They would put two posts in between you, and if you could twirl your sword without hitting them, then it was like a fun test."

In addition to sword work, Jett also trained to make an impressive flip during the fight scene. "They had me in wires so that I could do my flip," Jett recalls. "They recorded it and Nick had it on his computer. So for fun he would put it in reverse so it looked like I did a front flip too. But they ended up asking me to jump and then pretend to land, so they could do the rest digitally."

"Knowing what I did it looks easy, but it's not," Jett adds. "Don't try it unless you have very soft pillows."

Even though Jett spent plenty of time training with the Stunt Department, Gillard thinks the Padawan is a natural. "Jett really did well," Gillard says. "He likes to play, so when we rehearsed with him we would have half an hour of playing and half an hour of rehearsing. I think he was keeping a whole load back. He actually nailed it in the first few days and he just wanted to come and play, because when he went on the set he did it in his sleep. There was no trouble at all for him."

Gillard wasn't the only one impressed with Jett's lightsaber skills." I think he's the most adorable thing I've ever seen in my life," Katie beams. "You can just see in that scene he was trying so hard. I was really proud of him. Before, I had asked him to show me his fighting scenes, and he kept refusing by saying, 'I have to show you on the day because it's a big surprise!' And so he showed up, and he did so well. When he did his little roll and then when he died, I just thought he was so cute. And so many people showed up; even Hayden [Christensen] on his day off came to see him. And that meant a lot to Jett because he really looks up to Hayden."

"Seeing Jett do his stunts and watching him go through the process of working with Nick and the stunt people has been cool for me because he seems to have really grown up and he looked amazing doing it," Amanda adds.

Lucas also helped draw the best performance out of Jett by giving him pointers about the scene and encouraging Jett to focus on the young Jedi's defiant personality. "One of the things my dad would say when I did that scene was to get angry," Jett remembers. "And to push myself to the limit."

Another highlight for Jett included the honor of designing his own signature lightsaber. "Each Jedi has his own special lightsaber handle, but they don't get to choose like I did," Jett smiles. "I got to make my own."

This isn't the first time Jett can be seen in the prequels. He had a similar cameo appearance in Attack of the Clones, as the young Padawan who Jocasta Nu tends to during the library scene. For that role, he selected the name Warpoc Skamini for his character. Given the similarities between the Episode II and Episode III roles, a backstory was crafted to combine both roles into the same character.

Spending time as a family working on the Star Wars prequels is a tradition of sorts with the Lucas family, starting with The Phantom Menace.

"I think the first one, The Phantom Menace, was probablythe one that we actually worked on together more as a whole family," Katie admits. "We all contributed and even gave names to some of the characters."

"Back then my scene had me run in with Anakin [Jake Lloyd], and we were in Tunisia," Katie recalls. "It was so hot I almost passed out and we were kids so we had to keep drinking these disgusting re-hydration drinks. I would cry from the heat and my dad would help me out. And even Liam Neeson would set me on his knee and say, 'It's okay.' I was so scared because I'd never been in front of the camera, or even in any school plays before. But it was fun to be part of what my dad has done in this whole universe."

"It's been amazing just watching the whole process," Amanda adds. "It was a big trip because all of the characters from Episodes IV, V and VI that I had seen growing up were coming to life around me. So to be in it, it was kind of 'Twilight Zone-ish.' But it was cool to see how it all fits together!"

By spending time on location in the Tunisian desert, or in the case of Episode III, on sets in Sydney and the outskirts of London, the Lucas siblings weren't eager to leave once their film time was complete, mostly because the cast and crew had become somewhat of an extended family.