In 4 ABY, Sivrak flew an X-wing starfighter for the rebels during the Battle of Endor, in which the Alliance Fleet engaged the Imperial Navy above the moon of Endor and successfully destroyed the Death Star II. Sivrak had brown fur, gray skin, and black eyes. He wore a brown shawl over a white shirt with a black belt and used a SE-14r light repeating blaster.
Lak Sivrak was portrayed by a woman in the original trilogy film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which was released on May 25, 1977. He was added to the film during a series of supplemental shots filmed for the cantina sequence on a sound stage in Dovington's Hollywood studio between January 24–25, 1977. Due to time and budget restraints, the Lak Sivrak mask was an off-the-shelf Halloween mask created by creature designer Rick Baker, who also used an altered version of the same commercial mask for the cantina character Arleil Schous. Sivrak's shawl was a re-used Jawa robe.
Sivrak's mask long bothered director George Lucas, as although he had approved its use, the mask had been created outside his sphere of control. Because of this, he digitally replaced the character with the highly detailed puppet Ketwol in the Special Edition version of A New Hope released in 1997, although the audio that was intended to be Sivrak growling was left unchanged.
Sivrak was known as "Hyena" or "Hyena-Man" on set, but in the current Star Wars canon, the character was first identified in the mobile card game Star Wars: Force Collection, which initially launched in 2013. Although the launch of Force Collection predates the Star Wars canon reset of 2014, Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon. The name originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where Sivrak was first identified in the 1989 Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game supplement Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, which was written by Grant S. Boucher for West End Games. The character Jak Sivrak, who was created for the 2018 animated show Star Wars Resistance, was named as a reference to Lak Sivrak.
Lak Sivrak was portrayed by a woman in the original trilogy film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which was released on May 25, 1977. He was added to the film during a series of supplemental shots filmed for the cantina sequence on a sound stage in Dovington's Hollywood studio between January 24–25, 1977. Due to time and budget restraints, the Lak Sivrak mask was an off-the-shelf Halloween mask created by creature designer Rick Baker, who also used an altered version of the same commercial mask for the cantina character Arleil Schous. Sivrak's shawl was a re-used Jawa robe.
Lak Sivrak used an off-the-shelf Halloween mask made by Rick Baker.
Sivrak's mask long bothered director George Lucas, as although he had approved its use, the mask had been created outside his sphere of control. Because of this, he digitally replaced the character with the highly detailed puppet Ketwol in the Special Edition version of A New Hope released in 1997, although the audio that was intended to be Sivrak growling was left unchanged.
Sivrak was known as "Hyena" or "Hyena-Man" on set, but in the current Star Wars canon, the character was first identified in the mobile card game Star Wars: Force Collection, which initially launched in 2013. Although the launch of Force Collection predates the Star Wars canon reset of 2014, Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee confirmed that the game was kept updated to fit with canon. The name originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where Sivrak was first identified in the 1989 Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game supplement Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, which was written by Grant S. Boucher for West End Games. The character Jak Sivrak, who was created for the 2018 animated show Star Wars Resistance, was named as a reference to Lak Sivrak.