Darth Vader's Armor Terrified Star Wars Force Unleashed Actor
Darth Vader is one of the most feared beings in the Star Wars galaxy, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed voice actor Sam Witwer admits that he was scared of the infamous Sith Lord. Witwer is no stranger to the Dark Side of the Force, as he has played many villainous characters across multiple Star Wars projects over the years. He has voiced the Dark Side-empowered Son during the third season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the resurrected Darth Maul, and has even stood in for Ian Mcdiarmid as the voice of Emperor Palpatine. In fact, Sam Witwer recently reprised the latter two roles in the recent LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
However, Sam Witwer’s earliest contribution to the Star Wars franchise was the role of Galen Marek/Starkiller, the playable main character of 2008’s Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and its 2010 sequel. Starkiller was trained in the ways of the Dark Side by Darth Vader as part of a supposed plot to usurp Palpatine as ruler of the galaxy — a plan that took the powerful Sith apprentice across many different Star Wars worlds and led to him gathering many key figures of the soon-to-be-formed Rebel Alliance. However, Starkiller would start to grow fond of his newfound allies as Star Wars: The Force Unleashed’s story played out, eventually leading him to rebel against his former master and sacrifice himself in a final battle against the Sith onboard the original Death Star. As it turns out, the voice behind Starkiller had as much fear and respect for his former Sith master in real life as his onscreen persona did before his turn to the light.
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