Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.
Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.
As a director he was not that interested in Vader.
But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.
But it turned out that Vader was an icon who the kids thought was wonderful, so the campaign became much more successful because of Star Wars.
By then of course I knew my voice would be overdubbed and I wasn't worried about saying my lines quite as correctly as I did in the first film.
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
I developed the walk and mannerisms on my own and I suppose he approved for I never received directions otherwise!
I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!
I suppose in my own head I had formed an idea of Vader's background and a former slave on Tatooine wasn't what I had in mind.
I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.
I told them I couldn't tell George Lucas he's got to release me because I want to do Green Cross Code commercials.
I used to really try to answer actual letters and was always falling behind due to travel demands or other factors.
I, and I'm sure many celebrities, have a certain amount of guilt over letters that didn't get answered or got answered after long delays.
I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.
I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.
My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
Originally they tried to make a light sabre that worked, a carbon fibre dowel coated with reflective tape around a revolving motor.
Plus I couldn't see where I was going on set and my eyepieces kept misting up so I was constantly taking the helmet off!
So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!
That's the part for me... in my opinion, people will always remember the villain. They can never remember the goodies.
The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.
The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.
The only thing I could appreciate at the start was how much money had clearly been spent on the sets - they were.
They had me filming one scene elsewhere, to keep me busy. Meanwhile, the death scene is being shot somewhere else.
Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
When Star Wars came out in 1977 they suddenly realised the Green Cross Code Man was the evil villain and got cold feet.
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