Star Warsin Darth Vader lienee eräs maailmanhistorian tunnetuimmista pahiksista. Oikein kunnolla tämän on toki päässyt kokemaan Ewan McGregor, joka nähdään jälleen Obi-Wan Kenobina Disney+ -sarjassaan toukokuun lopussa. Niin ikään Darth Vaderina nähdään jälleen Hayden Christensen, ja kaksikko kohtaa sarjassa jälleen kerran toisensa taistelun merkeissä. McGregor totesi Total Filmin haastattelussa, että kokemus oli kauhistuttava.
"I've never met Darth Vader. I had rehearsed the scene with Vader, but not with the helmet on or anything like that. When we came to do the scene, when they shouted 'action', he had to come from behind me. I turned around, and fucking Darth Vader was coming at me. It was like I was six again. I'd never acted into Vader's helmet. I'd never looked him in the eye.
It scared the shit out of me. I'm not joking. It gave me a proper jolt of absolute fear. I was like, 'Oh my God, that's not acting. That's real. I'm really, truly frightened right now.' And the same thing would happen with the Stormtroopers. I'd worked with Clone troopers before, but so many of them were CGI. I never worked with Stormtroopers, and, again, I was like seven years old again. Because when you're actually faced with a Stormtrooper, with a blaster, it's like: 'Fucking hell.'"
Kyse oli lapsuuden muistojen kokemisesta uudelleen.
"It's like actual childhood memories of being scared. That's how deeply it's in us. I've acted for 30 years, and I've never been genuinely frightened when I'm acting frightened... But I had moments on this that were genuinely quite scary. It's so funny."