{"id":750675,"date":"2026-06-21T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750675\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:19:12","slug":"darth-maul-actor-talks-star-wars-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750675\/","title":{"rendered":"Darth Maul Actor Talks “Star Wars” Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n

Two people have been heavily tied to the role of Darth Maul in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d universe \u2013 Ray Park, who has played the live-action form of the character, and Sam Witwer who has voiced him across animation and in \u201cSolo\u201d.<\/p>\n

But one other name also has key ties to the red-and-black villain. British actor Peter Serafinowicz was the voice of the character in his debut in \u201cStar Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace\u201d \u2013 combined with Park\u2019s on screen performance.<\/p>\n

Serafinowicz\u2019s delivery of the line \u201cAt last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge\u201d from the film\u2019s trailer remains memorable to this day even as the film itself was initially met with a very mixed reception.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on the Classic Clown<\/a> podcast, the actor admits that delivering his small handful of lines as Darth Maul in the film left him underwhelmed:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was weird. This character, Darth Maul, I don\u2019t know what I thought. The design of it. I wasn\u2019t that into it. When I saw the film, it was the biggest disappointment of my life at that point. It really was. I mean, have you seen it? It was so exciting that even being in it, doing this thing, what I thought would be this iconic thing. Just unimaginable. I guess it sort of is [iconic]. I suppose.<\/p>\n

James Earl Jones has got the best voice of any human ever, right? Then, suddenly, there I was with George Lucas, and he was like saying, \u2018Well, Peter, you\u2019re the new James Earl Jones,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018F\u2014ing hell, am I? Then why are you paying me such s\u2013t money, George?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Witwer took over the character in the animated series \u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars\u201d and \u201cStar Wars Rebels\u201d before voicing the part in \u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story\u201d.<\/p>\n

Serafinowicz was most recently cast as Peeves the Poltergeist in HBO\u2019s upcoming \u201cHarry Potter\u201d TV series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm Two people have been heavily tied to the role of Darth Maul in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d universe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-750675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}