In a conversation with the American Film Institute, Jones explained that he was chosen by george lucas why the actor under the suit, the deceased David Prowsehad the necessary complexion for the role, but his voice was completely wrong.
“George wanted, pardon the expression, a dark voice. So he hired a kid born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan, who stutters. And that’s the voice. That’s me,” Jones said. “I was lucky, out of all these supposed disadvantages, for a job that he paid $7,000 for! And I thought it was good money if I just have to be a voice in a movie.”
In that same interview with AFI, Jones said that when he returned to “The Empire Strikes Back”planned to give a different performance than the one he did in “A New Hope” but Lucas quickly closed that possibility off, he explained.
“He said, ‘No, we know what we did well, so let’s try what we did.’ Naturally, I wanted to make Darth Vader more interesting, more subtle, more psychologically oriented,” Jones said. “And he said, ‘No, no. What we’re discovering is that you need to keep his voice in a very narrow inflection band because he’s not really human.’”
In a separate interview for a report on the making of the film, Jones said that when he first read the script for “Empire…”, he thought with certainty that Vader was misleading Luke Skywalker about being his father, saying: “I thought: ‘He’s lying. I wonder how they’re going to play with that lie?'”.
In another interview, Jones has recounted how he had fun using Vader’s voice, but only once, as he explained in an interview on The Dick Cavett Show.
“I was driving around the country with a portable radio and I used ‘Darth Vader,’” the actor recalled. “That scared a lot of people. When I got to the truck stop, there was a buzz about it. So I decided not to do that anymore.”
Source: Ambito
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