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The final chapter in Star Wars’ Skywalker Saga, The Rise of Skywalker, was controversial, to say the least. Perhaps most controversial was the choice to bring back Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, ...

Among its many crimes, the one Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker still hasn’t paid for is the sudden introduction of Emperor Palpatine’s sex life into the Star Wars canon. By revealing that Emperor ...

Clive Revill, a prolific stage and screen actor known to "Star Wars" fans as the original voice of the iconic villain Emperor Palpatine, has died, according to reports. He was 94. The actor's daughter ...

Warning: The below story contains a spoiler for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. And also, talk of Emperor Palpatine's sex life, but don't blame us for that. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker answered ...

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 position ...

Few people get the chance to play a character for as long as Ian McDiarmid has played Emperor Palpatine, and now one of his most underrated iterations has been immortalized. The official Hot Toys ...

Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university, but found his calling in cultural journalism. When he isn't writing, Julio also teaches English at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaking to Variety, McDiarmid said, “there was never any discussion,” regarding Palpatine’s fuck style because “we don’t really ...