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 ...

Although Ian McDiarmid played a younger version of Sheev Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious, in Star Wars’ Prequel Trilogy, chronologically speaking, the character was understandably thought to ...

Justin Audibert’s beautifully paced (and, given our cash-strapped era, smartly timed) revival boasts Ian McDiarmid on superb form as the man who comes in from the cold. The Scottish actor is a ...

Ian McDiarmid “thought [he’d] gone too much ... But by then, it so happened that I was young enough to play the younger senator. “When I first met George about it, he said, ‘Do you know ...

Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid recently confirmed that George ... Lee Freitag has been fascinated with the movie and TV industry since a young age. When he's not covering the latest superhero ...

Revenge of the Sith was the culmination of plans by Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) that led to the fall of the Jedi and his own ascension to emperor. Because McDiarmid’s Emperor died in ...

Image caption, Ian McDiarmid is currently appearing in What ... "But when the prequels happened Palpatine was his younger self which was about my age then, in his 50s. "Apart from a not-very ...