00:00Finding the right voice for Darth Vader was another challenge.
00:05And action!
00:07Lucas had never intended to use the on-set vocal performance of David Prowse.
00:12Start tearing this ship apart piece by piece until you've found those tapes.
00:16Find the passengers in this vessel. I want them alive!
00:19I can still hear David Prowse's accent in the Darth Vader mask muffled
00:24because he would do the real dialogue.
00:26He's trying to curse Carrie Fisher or something.
00:28I don't know what you're talking about.
00:30I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic...
00:32You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take her away.
00:37It was hilarious and terrifying at the same time
00:39because we didn't know what Darth sounded like.
00:41That was the first time we heard him. We're like, is that it?
00:44Is there gonna be some Scottish guy or what is this?
00:47Prowse's voice would later be replaced with a more menacing performance.
00:52Provided by classically trained stage and film actor James Earl Jones.
00:57George had hired David Prowse, but he said he wanted a so-called darker voice.
01:03And not in terms of ethnic, but in terms of timbre.
01:08And the rumor is that he thought of Orson Welles.
01:12And then probably thought that Orson might be too recognizable.
01:17So what he ends up is picking a voice that was born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan, and was a stutterer.
01:25And that happened to be my voice.
01:27I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.
01:30I don't know what you're talking about.
01:32I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.
01:36You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take that away!
01:40Take that away.
01:41The Rebel Alliance and a traitor Roger.
01:42I'll catch you.
01:43I'll catch you.
01:44Take that away.
01:45Bye!
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