"Everything Went Wrong" – Why Empire Strikes Back’s Most Emotional Scene Was A Nightmare To Film

The Empire Strikes Back‘s emotional heavy-lifter was the carbon-freeze sequence, but shooting the scene was a hellish experience for the cast and crew. Believing they had outsmarted the Empire, the heroes aboard the Millennium Falcon head to Cloud City for refuge, where they’re promptly betrayed by Lando Calrissian. As the final stroke in his master plan to lure in Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader tests the facility’s carbon-freezing chamber on Han Solo – making way for a monumental Star Wars moment that proved the villains could come out on top.