NPR : Actor James Earl Jones

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

Last Friday, I caught NPR’s interview of James Earl Jones, and I learned a few surprising things:

Jones is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter.

I believe that qualifies as ironic.

The Tony-Award winning actor took just one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in Star Wars.

He got a few thousand dollars for a few hours work, and he was fine with that. In fact, he didn’t even consider it real acting; it was just special effects.

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