I had no dialogue referring to Luke’s father. I just said ‘come and join me and the Dark Side’. You said ‘No Luke, Obi-Wan is your father’. In the Empire Strikes Back you also didn’t know the line ‘no Luke, I am your father’ was going to be in the movie. By the way, did you know they overdubbed your voice?’ I have never spoken with George Lucas since 1983 and neither he or anyone from Lucasfilm has ever come to me saying why they overdubbed my voice.
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I finished the film in November 1976 and when it came out in the USA in May 1977 I got a note from director Russ Meyer saying ‘congratulations Dave, you’re in the biggest movie ever. While this interview from 2006 does not specifically address the supposed leak, he does say that he didn't know the truth, and that he felt the studio didn't trust him because he might leak something like that. I've seen a few people speculate that he must have seen an early script or draft and ran with that. The explanation I've heard in a few places was that Prowse was joking/speculating at the time, and only happened to be right. I've asked on Skeptics.SE whether the newspaper article is authentic. So exactly how secret was this secret anyway? San Francisco Examiner, 24 July 1978, page 4 Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, the young hero in the first film played by Mark Hamill, are hooked up in a do-or-die light saber duel when Luke learns that Darth is, in fact, his long-lost father. So how do we explain Dave Prowse knowing and divulging this same secret two years before the release?Īnd offered a glimpse of a possible plot for the second sequel. It's such a great moment! The fake line that was put in there just to try and keep the secret was "You don't know the truth: Obi-Wan killed your father!" But as much as I enjoyed leaking false information, it was a wonderfully hard secret to keep because (Irvin) Kershner, the director, brought me aside and said "Now I know this, and George knows this, and now you're going to know this, but if you tell anybody, and that means Carrie or Harrison, or anybody, we're going to know who it is because we know who knows." Like Mark Hamill relates in an interview:īut, for example, your big scene, one of the classic cinematic moments when Darth Vader divulges his true identity, is no longer a revelation. (Of course, Darth Vader wasn't voiced by him in the first place all lines were overdubbed by James Earl Jones). This surprise was kept secret to most of the crew and even the cast during production, with Dave Prowse, the actor playing Darth Vader, delivering a fake line, the actual line being overdubbed. Arguably the most famous scene in Star Wars is when Darth Vader reveals to Luke Skywalker that
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