Sam Witwer: Yeah, I was a huge gamer, table-top RPGs and video games, console games and PC games. : Your longstanding Star Wars fandom is well known, but do you share a similar enthusiasm for games? Were you a gamer before becoming involved with The Force Unleashed? But one thing that hasn’t changed about me is my undying enthusiasm and excitement over the Star Wars stories. And then when I review certain things about my life, maybe I am different. I guess the passage of time is a tricky thing to track these days, because I don’t know that I feel that different than I did back then. Just a few days back was the 11 th anniversary of Dave Filoni calling me to tell me to play Maul, right? So, I’m like, “Wow, that was 11 years ago that we decided to do that.” Force Unleashed was 15. : Does it feel like 15 years since you first brought Starkiller to life? And Force Unleashed, ever since it was released, there hasn’t been a week where someone, or multiple someones, aren’t asking me about it. For an actor, anytime work you did a long time ago just never goes away, that’s a great feeling.

: So how does it feel for The Force Unleashed, nearly 15 years from its original release, to be getting another life on one of the medium's most popular platforms?

With The Force Unleashed about to hit the Nintendo Switch for the first time - introducing a new generation of fans to Vader's conflicted pupil - courtesy of Aspyr and Lucasfilm Games, spoke with Witwer about working on the game, how it jump-started his Star Wars career, and why Starkiller's path serves as a cautionary tale to would-be Sith. Oh, and he also brought down a Star Destroyer with his bare hands. As Darth Vader's Force-sensitive secret apprentice in the Legends-storytelling game, he not only helped spawn one of gaming's coolest protagonists, but an incredibly compelling, complex character in his own right. Starkiller in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - remains one of his most iconic. While Witwer's list of Star Wars credits stretch as far as the Dune Sea, his very first role in the saga - Galen Marek a.k.a. Of course, long before lending his acting chops to these brick-based baddies, the prolific performer was bringing both characters (and many more) to life in a variety of Star Wars projects, from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels to a host of other series, films, and video games from a galaxy far, far away. If you've been smashing your way through LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, you've likely encountered the work of Sam Witwer, who voices Emperor Palpatine and Darth Maul in the game. catches up with Starkiller himself as the iconic game gets a major re-release.

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