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 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, ...

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 ...

Many character relationships have a will-they, won't-they dynamic to them, but for many Star Wars fans, this described a non-romantic thing. Would Rey, naive scavenger and aspiring Jedi, ever yield to ...

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 ...

If you were a Star Wars fan in 2019, you know most fan theories centered around one thing: Who is Rey? The sequel trilogy’s heroine was described as coming “from nothing,” but before 2019’s The Rise ...

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Before “he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died,” there was “somehow, Palpatine returned.” “A lot of people said it was ridiculous,” he told Empire. “Of ...

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 ...