The Official Site updates with a multiple page article on an ILMer turned actress:

Episode II was well into post-production when the decision to add Aayla was made, so the casting and costuming of this particular Jedi happened mostly at ILM. Stepping into Aayla's droid-kicking boots was Amy Allen, a Production Assistant working at ILM. It was a fortuitous delay in an unrelated film that saw her entrance into Episode II. "I got to do a lot of hands-on work and really get involved with all the shows that were going on at the time," recounts Allen. "This included A.I., Jurassic Park III, Pearl Harbor, and all the really big shows. I was on Gangs of New York for quite a long time and then it went on hiatus because the movie release date was postponed. That's how I ended up working on a stage unit for Star Wars, which was a blessing in disguise." A graduate from San Francisco State University, Allen studied film and sought work in the Bay Area, landing a job at Industrial Light & Magic. Though her work was primarily behind-the-scenes, her role as Aayla was actually not the first blue Twi'lek Allen performed. "I had been a Twi'lek for the Episode I DVD," she says. In a modification to The Phantom Menace for the DVD release, Senator Orn Free Taa's formerly human-filled Senate pod was instead populated with Twi'leks. "George [Lucas] decided, last minute, to replace that shot. So, I was actually a blue Twi'lek probably two months after I started at ILM."

Allen underwent makeup and a headdress fitting, and was dressed in a Senatorial aide gown designed for Episode II. She was shot against greenscreen, supervised by John Knoll, one of the Visual Effects Supervisors for both Episodes I and II. "I was interested in being in front of the camera, but it's nothing that I actively pursued," she admits. "But when an opportunity arises, one must take it!" Little did she expect what was to come.