starwarsvillains: Behind the scenes on Return of the Jedi“I first encountered Emperor Palpatine at E
starwarsvillains: Behind the scenes on Return of the Jedi“I first encountered Emperor Palpatine at Elstree Studios in the early 1980s. He was staring back at me from a make-up mirror, larger than life and 50 times as ugly. Yellow contact lenses stung my eyes and afforded little peripheral vision. As I walked onto a vast sound stage that had been transformed into a starship hangar, populated by seemingly endless platoons of gleaming white stormtroopers, the scale of George Lucas’s vision hit me. This was a space spectacle, a back-drop for a galactic opera of Wagnerian dimension.”- Ian McDiarmid (2005) -- source link