Luke Skywalker’s Notorious Milk Bottle Was CGI, Apparently

Which is especially funny considering that director Rian Johnson was insistent that the “Thala-siren” itself be a practical effect, rather than a computer-generated one. Which wasn’t exactly easy since it required wrapping a puppet the size of a refrigerator in what looks like a giant black garbage bag and helicoptering it to a remote island off the coast of Ireland.

Why would they use computer technology to fabricate a simple bottle when the production literally airlifted a rubber monster to the set purely for the sake of realism? According to a response from Lucasfilm’s Phil Szostak, the CGI bottle did replace an “existing physical one,” which was probably changed either because of how the original bottle looked, “or the way it was performed.” Sure enough, in the behind-the-scenes footage, you can plainly see that not only is the bottle different, that milk hits its target with all the accuracy of a toddler learning to use the toilet for the first time.