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INTERVIEW: MICHAEL PENNINGTON
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when you’re doing your thing, but that’s what
Darth Vader did to Moff Jerjerrod.
I read a great article someone had written
about his life and whole backstory. I don’t know if
it was taken from the novelization or subsequent
spin-offs, but it emphasized that Jerjerrod was a
serious engineer by profession, and that he was
the right person to build a Death Star. But the
poor Moff found himself in rather an impossible
position—he was doing his best to deliver this
Death Star, but it was going slowly and he was
terrified that the Emperor would turn up and find 01 The Emperor arrives knows he’s going to get whatever happens
him out. Of course, in the end, he had no trouble on the Death Star. to people who fail to build Death Stars at the
with the Emperor at all. 02 Michael Pennington Emperor’s command. I had respect for Jerjerrod.
as Moff Jerjerrod. He was just a guy trying to do a good job, who
There’s a look of abject fear on Moff Jerjerrod’s ended up being more or less strangled—which,
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face during his scene with Vader. Was it simply Jerjerrod was “just as we mentioned, is not in the fi lm.
the sight of Dave Prowse in costume that a guy trying to do
a good job.”
inspired your performance? Jerjerrod was key in conveying certain plot
It was, actually (laughs). When Vader says that the points to the audience, including the fact that
Emperor will finish off the job himself, Jerjerrod the Death Star was behind schedule. Do you
feel his importance is recognized?
He is a critical character, more so than his eventual
screen time might otherwise suggest, and fans do
Jerjerrod knows he’s going to get whatever remember him. I work with middle-aged actors
now who know the films backwards, and not only
happens to people who fail to build Death do they play the Moff Jerjerrod scene on their
phones within seconds of meeting me, they can
quote all of the dialogue back to me.
Stars at the Emperor’s command.
On one occasion, in a show that I was doing
last summer—during our little warm up before the
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