Star Wars: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Darth Vader
8. David Prowse And George Lucas Did Not See Eye To Eye
While Hayden Christensen is set to step back into the iconic suit for the upcoming Disney+ return of the burned-up badass, it was the late David Prowse who first set foot onto a Star Wars set as the now-immortalised force of darkness.
However, upon hearing the British bodybuilder deliver some of Vader's eventually hugely quotable lines, Lucas soon decided that he needed to swap out Prowse's voice for the deep tones of James Earl Jones. With Prowse not being aware of this call until late in the day, the Brit was said to have been rather p*ssed at Lucas from there on out, refusing to learn his lines for the subsequent sequels and even uttering gibberish to his scene partners at times in an act of sheer defiance.
Prowse and Lucas' feud would continue in the wake of the Original Trilogy, too, as the former was eventually banned from all Lucasfilm events on the back of claiming he wasn't paid residuals for his work on Return of the Jedi and Lucas claiming his physical Vader had "burnt too many bridges".