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TIL that when Sebastian Shaw arrived at the set of Return of the Jedi, he ran into his friend Ian McDiarmid (Palpatine). When McDiarmid asked Shaw what he was doing there, Shaw responded, "I don't know, dear boy, I think it's something to do with science-fiction." Shaw was the face of Darth Vader.

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