Peter Serafinowicz Calls Darth Maul Role 'Biggest Disappointment'

Peter Serafinowicz, who voiced Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, said the part left him disappointed. He recalled seeing the character onscreen with a different Maul in mind and described the moment as, "It was weird. This character Darth Maul… I don't know what I thought.

The design of it… I wasn't that into it. When I saw the film it was the biggest disappointment of my life at that point. It really was." Serafinowicz also pushed back on creator George Lucas's early comparisons, noting Lucas suggested Maul's voice would be as iconic as Darth Vader's.

"James Earl Jones has got the best voice of any human ever, right?" he said, then recalled Lucas telling him, "Well, Peter, you're the new James Earl Jones," and his own blunt reply: "F***ing hell, am I?

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