Ian McDiarmid, who plays Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars franchise, says it’s a “horrible idea” to imagine his character having sex. He continued, “Maybe it’s all to do with midi-chlorians – and ...

The film opens with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) separately learning of the return of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who has somehow remained alive years after seemingly being ...

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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, ...

After being pretty definitively killed-off (or so we thought) towards the end of Return of the Jedi, Emperor Palpatine returned in the final movie in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, the much-maligned ...

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In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine somehow returned. It turned out he'd transferred his consciousness into a cloned body after being thrown to his death by Darth Vader in Return of ...

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Ian McDiarmid, who plays Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars franchise, says it’s a “horrible idea” to imagine his character having sex. “Yes, he does [have sex],” McDiarmid said. “It’s a horrible idea ...