TIL Welsh actor Ian McDiarmid, who played Chancellor Sheev Palpatine in the Star Wars prequels as an old man, also played the Emperor in Return of the Jedi when he was only 33.
TIL Welsh actor Ian McDiarmid, who played Chancellor Sheev Palpatine in the Star Wars prequels as an old man...
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Tyler Lewis
Yeah, I was surprised with how young he actually was.
Daniel Flores
That's fucking incredible, talent to the make-up artists and his acting then because I would have never known.
Angel Fisher
They had him put on a ton of facial prosthetics and makeup for Episode VI, the yellow contacts were so thick and painful he could barely blink.
Isaac Clark
YFW, Watching Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Sheev the butler shows up.
Samuel Hughes
>Welsh
He's Scottish
>33
He was 39
Is this a person who's retarded or a person who's pretending to be retarded
Ryan Ross
Wow he was old even back then
Brody Ward
So they had him play an older version of his character when he was younger and a younger version when he was older.
William Brooks
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Leo Fisher
Actually he's from the Isle of Mann and was 28 when he played Sheev for the first time
Luis Lewis
Ironically, he looked more convincing as an old person back then.
Xavier Wright
It's almost...poetic
Brandon Long
CIRCLE THEORY YOU BITCHES
Liam Bell
The prosthetics work they did on the Emperor in ROTJ was infinitely better than what they did in ROTS. In Jedi he looked like an evil old wizard, but in Sith he looked like a monster.
I want to find whoever made that creative decision and do something suitably punitive to them
Bentley Clark
And who played him in Empire?
Tyler Anderson
Look, we've settled this before. He was a rambunctious young 12-year-old from Cornwall when he first played Shiva.
Michael Rogers
I guess he wins again
William Cook
An old woman with a dubbed voice
Dominic Smith
Wait, I thought he was 6 in RotJ and the casting agent discovered him during a fishing trip to the Orkney Islands?
Gabriel Thompson
Kek
Colton Ross
I want to watch a road trip movie with Sheev, Luke and Wedge
Grayson Howard
That's Anthony Daniels aka C-3PO, stoopid
Asher Ortiz
Palpatine is the real star of the whole franchise.
The pottery of him being almost ageless from the first trilogy to the prequels, being the best actor in all his scenes, carrying the dark side through various meme apprentices. Undeniable.
Robert Nguyen
In ROTS he just looked like someone had plastered a butt to his face.
Levi Morales
He's just playing a game, trying to find the best apprentice possible and always ready to upgrade.
Isaac Long
I remember in episode II they gave him aged skin and suddenly the next film ditched it.
Gavin Russell
Ian McDiarmid doesn't get enough credit for being the only redeeming quality in the entire Star Wars series/universe.
The plebs will fuss over Carrie Fisher or whoever they've latched on to now from the sequel trilogy, but we'll know the esoteric truth of the matter,
We'll always know.
Jaxson Cooper
They definitely should have stuck with it, it looked like it would have synchronised up perfectly with his appearance in Jedi, AND it would have been an interesting thing for such unbelievably strong dark side energy to be shown gradually seeping through throughout the time span of several decades. It would have added an even nicer glossing for Sheev's character.
And it was such a good look, too.
Eli Baker
What's next a clone of a young Sheev?
Charles Brown
what if snoke is sheev but even more burnt after falling through a shaft with lots of plasma?
Caleb Cox
Possible. Some say it's Rey's evil consciousness.
Asher Walker
Nathan Brown
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Jacob Adams
Snoke Sheev everyday
Jackson Hall
Did he buy a hot meal?