Actor Ian McDiarmid doesn’t see the problem with Emperor Palpatine’s return in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.In the film, which marked the third and final installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Ian McDiarmid made a surprising return as Emperor Palpatine. The character had seemingly been vanquished by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Darth Vader (David Prowse & James Earl Jones) in the original trilogy, and he hadn’t been featured in the previous installments of the sequels. His return in The Rise of Skywalker and absence in the prior films was also not given much context, beyond a line of dialogue declaring, “Somehow, Palpatine returned.” The line has since become a meme with Star Wars fans who often poke fun at the bizarre way the iconic villain came back.“A lot of people said it was ridiculous,” McDiarmid explained, per Empire. “Of course, he was dead at the end of Return Of The Jedi! And frankly, I think George [Lucas] thought he’d killed me too. But J.J. [Abrams] thought it would be a good idea – I wasn’t going to argue with him… I felt that Palpatine always had a plan B – probably a plan C, D, E, and F as well. And he was an expert in cloning, so…”
Actor Ian McDiarmid doesn’t see the problem with Emperor Palpatine’s return in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.
In the film, which marked the third and final installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, Ian McDiarmid made a surprising return as Emperor Palpatine. The character had seemingly been vanquished by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Darth Vader (David Prowse & James Earl Jones) in the original trilogy, and he hadn’t been featured in the previous installments of the sequels. His return in The Rise of Skywalker and absence in the prior films was also not given much context, beyond a line of dialogue declaring, “Somehow, Palpatine returned.” The line has since become a meme with Star Wars fans who often poke fun at the bizarre way the iconic villain came back.
“A lot of people said it was ridiculous,” McDiarmid explained, per Empire. “Of course, he was dead at the end of Return Of The Jedi! And frankly, I think George [Lucas] thought he’d killed me too. But J.J. [Abrams] thought it would be a good idea – I wasn’t going to argue with him… I felt that Palpatine always had a plan B – probably a plan C, D, E, and F as well. And he was an expert in cloning, so…”
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