Wes Anderson spoke to The Sunday Times about the infamous set tension that existed on the set of 2001’s “The Royal Tenenbaums ...

T he Star Wars universe has plenty of standout villains, from Darth Vader to Darth Maul. But the most malevolent has to be Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), the ruler of the Gala ...

Ian McDiarmid decided to explore Palpatine's intimate life for Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, which reveals a messy and ...

The Rise Of Skywalker still hasn’t paid for is the sudden introduction of Emperor Palpatine’s sex life into the Star Wars ...

Meanwhile, the Clone Wars themselves (the stuff of legend thanks to a tantalising line spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi in "A New ...

Ian McDiarmid still has trouble wrapping his head around Star Wars Episode IX's familial revelations about the Emperor.

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 ...

Ian McDiarmid has now been playing Emperor Palpatine for 42 years. First, it was as the mysterious big bad of the original Star Wars trilogy, and then as a Senator who rises to the ultimate ...

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 ...

Revenge of the Sith premiered in May 2005, it was heralded as the final chapter in a long-anticipated saga. George Luc ...

This marks the first Star Wars project that explores the universe after the events of Rise of Skywalker, despite not being the first planned project to do so — and as for Levy’s post-Rise of Skywalker ...

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 ...