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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
But even more interesting is the fact that the character is actually two people: Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious.
But George was very interesting when we started The Phantom Menace: he told me I should think of my eyes as Palpatine's contact lenses, which was a great thing to say to an actor.
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the m... (more Ian McDiarmid quotes)
Ian was only 37 when he first played the role of Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars, a character aged over 70 years old.
Ian claims his love of the theatre began when he was only five years old, on the day his father took him to see an act by the name of Tommy Morgan in a theatre located in Dundee.
He was educated at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland, 1968.
Ian made his London stage debut in 1973.
Apart from Star Wa... (more Ian McDiarmid trivia)
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