10 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Darth Vader
3. James Earl Jones DIDN'T Voice Him In Obi-Wan Kenobi
Vader of course appears throughout the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series, with many commending the great James Earl Jones for once again reprising his vocal role as Vader with sure, villainous relish.
Except, it's not quite true to say that Jones played Vader in the show - or at least, not in the conventional sense.
Indeed, that is Jones' voice we hear throughout the series, but the lines weren't performed by the 91-year-old actor, who recently announced his retirement from voicing Vader.
As a result, Vader's voice for Obi-Wan Kenobi was produced by Ukrainian machine learning startup Respeecher, whose software used Jones' voice from existing Star Wars media to generate new dialogue.
It's a testament to the quality of Respeecher's efforts that the end result is basically seamless, and it's easy to see why so many assumed that Jones, despite his age, was still performing the part - and in a manner totally consistent with his decades-old portrayals, no less.