{"id":93502,"date":"2016-12-08T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=93502"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:45:23","slug":"rogue-one-gareth-edwards-on-meeting-darth-vader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/rogue-one-gareth-edwards-on-meeting-darth-vader\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue One: Gareth Edwards on meeting Darth Vader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darth Vader may be an imposing presence, but it\u2019s his voice that lends him his gravitas, which made it such a coup that original voice actor James Earl Jones was willing to return to the role, which the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/strong><\/em> will see him do.<\/p>\n

As director Gareth Edwards tells it, meeting him in person was quite an experience. \u201cWe went over to New York. It was at Christmas, and The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/em> was out. It was everywhere, so even crossing the road to you passed a shop that\u2019s got Darth Vader in it, and kids have got Vader on their t-shirts.<\/p>\n

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James Earl Jones returned to voice Darth Vader for Rogue One.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe went to this sound-recording place, and begin the session, and I was like, \u2018You see Darth Vader everywhere, right? Every time you see him do you think, \u2018That\u2019s me?\u2019\u2019 And he went, \u2018No, not at all, I just see George.\u2019 It\u2019s that thing I did years ago \u2013 that little bit of voice work\u2019. He hasn\u2019t watched The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong><\/em> or Return Of The Jedi<\/em><\/strong> since he did the recording session I\u2019m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for all his professionalism, ultimately when faced with the full power of James Earl Jones, the director of the first Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> anthology movie ultimately became as much of a fanboy as everyone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever he said a line \u2013 \u2018Power\u2019 was the one \u2013 you would try and stay professional, but he would have his back to us, because he was facing the screen, and we would look at each other and be tearing up!\u201d A lot of the same emotions will be running through fans when this is out in cinemas. Not long now…<\/p>\n

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 15 December 2017. Read our full behind-the-scenes feature in issue 126 of SciFiNow<\/a>, on sale now.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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