Luckily for Bulloch, his face wasn’t visible for his screen time in director Irvin Kershner’s “The Empire Strikes Back,” and the film didn’t use his on-set audio for his lines. This means that he could blow a line entirely without ruining a take, as his actual lines would be dubbed later during post-production. Indeed, it seems that one of Bulloch’s four lines was totally flubbed … and no one noticed.
There is a scene at the end of “Empire” wherein Boba Fett has captured Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and sealed him in a stone-like sci-fi coffin composed of a frozen material known as carbonite. Boba Fett is a bounty hunter, you see, and aimed to deliver Han Solo to the dangerous gangster Jabba the Hutt in exchange for payment.
One of his four lines, however, mixed up a few vital words. When asked for a funny story by a Redditor, Bulloch recalled:
“There’s lot of fun moments actually. Under a mask no one can hear you. There’s a part where I turn to an Imperial officer and say, ‘Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold,’ but I actually said ‘Put Captain Cargo in the Solo hold.’ Luckily I didn’t have to tell anybody because you can’t hear what I’m saying under the mask. But I didn’t have any lines … How on earth with so few lines could I make a mistake??”
Given the way “Star Wars” operates, it might only be a matter of time before a character named Captain Cargo appears in fan fiction. From there, it’s only a matter of time before Captain Cargo becomes a canonical character. See, Bulloch didn’t just blow a line. He may have contributed to “Star Wars” lore.