The prequel cultural reclamation of everything from Jar Jar Binks to Hayden Christensen's Anakin performance has been as ...

Iconic Star Wars actor Ian McDiarmid has just confirmed some exciting secrets about playing Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Having played the Emperor for just ...

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Remarkably, Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid has inhabited the role for 42 years; along with Anthony Daniels as C-3P0, that ranks among the longest tours of duty in “Star Wars” history.

McDiarmid also believes the famous antagonist's lineage revealed in "The Rise of the Skywalker" happened as a result of a "virgin birth." “It wasn’t mapped out at all, really,” he said ...

Ian McDiarmid “thought [he’d] gone too much too far” during his Palpatine vs Mace Windu duel in ‘Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith’. The 80-year-old actor - who has portrayed ...

Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid recently confirmed that George Lucas had planned to develop a television series centered around the fan-favorite Star Wars villain. Years before Disney acquired ...

In a strange way, it may have helped the scene." Ian McDiarmid in "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" (1983). Image courtesy of Lucasfilm Following the panned reaction from the final Skywalker Saga ...

Has Emperor Palpatine ever been able to, ahem, do it? Ian McDiarmid can't say for sure. In an interview commemorating the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ...