Darth Vader Not Politically Correct

The man who filled the suit of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy has blasted the original production team for being too politically correct


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David Prowse, the man who filled the suit of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy has blasted the original production team for being too politically correct. In the run up to a Canadian Star Wars convention he's been telling local press that interference from the 'PC police' stopped his voice being used. Claiming that the gravelly tones of James Earl Jones were dubbed over his own was because the studio felt that ethnic minorities weren't being adequately represented. Those that remember his performances in the Green Cross Code TV ad campaign during the seventies may understand the producers' decision. Quite why he's bellyaching two decades after the event is anyone's guess. Maybe he wants a long queue of sympathetic well wishers at his signing desk to make up for what was obviously a crushing disappointment.

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