This was, after all, a children’s film about taxes, trade disputes and a racist space frog almost played by Michael Jackson. Serafinowicz’s account of Phantom Menace was outlandish, but honestly, not that much more so than the real Phantom Menace, which turns 20 today (19 May). The feud eventually boiled over into a violent medieval jousting match that culminated in the death of two elephants. To prepare for the role, Serafinowicz said, he moved to Tunisia and opened a shoe-repair shop, before coming to blows with director George Lucas on several occasions when filming began. The script was originally packed with ghosts, he told the hosts of the Blank Check podcast, hence the movie’s title. “It was meant to be a musical,” he said, deadpanning for 45 minutes about a Phantom Menace that never was. In 2017, Peter Serafinowicz, the British comedian who voiced Darth Maul in the infamous Star Wars prequel Episode I: The Phantom Menace, sat down for a tell-all interview delving into the film’s creation.
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