Fasinating address at the Oxonian Society www.oxoniansociety.com by Ian McDiarmid, leading actor from the Star Wars trilogy and Tony award winner. McDiarmid is known to hundreds of millions of Star Wars fans as the Emperor Palpatine. However first and foremost McDiarmid has built a career as one of the theatre's most acclaimed and influential figures. Last year McDiarmid won the Tony award for best actor on Broadway for his astonishing performance in Faith Healer. McDiarmid's movie breakthrough occurred when he was cast as the Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi in 1983. In The Phantom Menace, McDiarmid took on two personas, both as Senator Palpatine and his evil alter ego Darth Sidious. McDiarmid stared in Gorky Park, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. The Society is dedicated to provocative discussion and debate with the world's best and most interesting minds, and is open to people of all backgrounds and experiences www.oxoniansociety.com A longer version of the whole free video can be viewed at the aforementioned URL
