En mycket rimlig gissning är att om man skulle göra en världsomfattande omröstning om den bästa filmskurken genom tiderna, skulle Darth Vader hamna i topp. Denna sith lord har verkligen allt, inklusive ett mycket hotfullt utseende som kan skrämma vem som helst.
En person som verkligen fick smaka på detta var Ewan McGregor, som återigen spelar Obi-Wan Kenobi i den kommande TV-serien med samma namn, som har premiär i slutet av maj. Som du säkert vet är Hayden Christensen tillbaka som Darth Vader i serien, och kommer att ha minst en stridsscen mot general Kenobi.
McGregor hade detta att säga om den episka striden i en intervju med Total Film och hävdade att han var livrädd under inspelningen:
"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.'"
Många av oss fick stifta bekantskap med Darth Vader när vi var barn, och McGregor säger att mötet med Vader var precis som att bli barn på nytt igen, detta eftersom Vader är så skrämmande:
"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."
Låt oss bara säga att detta inte direkt minskade vår hype för Obi-Wan Kenobi-serien...
