Ian McDiarmid's firecracker of a performance as Chancellor-turned-Emperor Palpatine. Even the most ardent prequel defenders (raises hand) should admit some of Lucas' ham-fisted interpersonal ...

Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidiousactor Ian McDiarmid shockingly hinted that Star Warswas considering a Palpatine TV show at one time, which would have addressed some major lingering questions in ...

Palpatine's return has been turned into countless memes, but Ian McDiarmid has defended the choice. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

If we're talking about the performance that makes the greatest impact, though, it's Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid as the one and only Emperor Sheev Palpatine. Though the feared head of the Galactic ...

So it started off as a big mystery. I had no idea that Palpatine would figure [into the story so heavily].” Even when George Lucas brought McDiarmid back for “The Phantom Menace” to play ...

Ian McDiarmid has now been playing Emperor Palpatine for 42 years. First, it was as the mysterious big bad of the original Star Wars trilogy, and then as a Senator who rises to the ultimate ...

did Palpatine fuck? We’re just glad to know that Ian McDiarmid has been thinking about this too. “Please don’t pursue that line too vigorously,” McDiarmid recently told Empire magazine ...

Ian McDiarmid “thought [he’d] gone too much too far” during his Palpatine vs Mace Windu duel in ‘Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith’. The 80-year-old actor - who has portrayed ...

Perhaps most controversial was the choice to bring back Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious. It was so controversial, that Poe Dameron’s line “Somehow, Palpatine returned ...

Ian McDiarmid in "Star Wars ... But as I said, mine and Palpatine's logic was entirely reasonable. This man, who was horribly maimed, thought maybe one day it might happen to him, and we've ...