“[George Lucas] said this casually, ‘You should think of Palpatine’s eyes as contact lenses…’ So there’s Palpatine’s eyes and my eyes and that was very interesting. So, in fact, his face, which is the same as mine, was the unreal aspect. My own face was the mask. And then when I get into the mask, that is the evil person – that’s the real face.” – Ian McDiarmid