He was the first voice of Darth Maul, the new sith that enthralled a generation of fans as The Phantom Menace blitzed the box office in 1999, ending the year as the third highest grossing film of all time behind only Titanic and Jurassic Park, and speaking to Seann Walsh on the Class Clown Podcast comedian Peter Serafinowicz remembers his time in the recording booth.

Peter Serfinowicz has one of the most envious CVs in comedy: South Park, Shaun of The Dead, Star Wars, Guardians Of The Galaxy, John Wick, The Tick, Alan Partridge, Rick & Morty, The Simpsons, as well as creating his own iconic characters such as Brian Butterfield. In this episode we get into his early ability to mimic, his ADHD, the influence of Spike Milligan and how he went from a council estate in Liverpool as a Star Wars obsessed kid who later went on to fulfill his dream and land the role as the voice of Darth Maul in Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (Something he describes as being the biggest disappointment of his life!).
We also get into why he fell in love with Eric Idle’s The Rutles before getting into The Beatles.

It’s clear Serafinowicz has mixed feelings on his sithly appearance, as Variety covered.

“It was weird. This character Darth Maul…I don’t know what I thought,” Serafinowicz said. “The design of it…I wasn’t that into it. When I saw the film it was the biggest disappointment of my life at that point. It really was. I mean, have you seen it? It was so exciting that even being in it…doing this thing, what I thought would be this iconic thing. Just unimaginable…I guess it sort of is, I suppose.”

“James Earl Jones has got the best voice of any human ever, right?” Serafinowicz continued. “Then, suddenly there I was with George Lucas, and he was like saying, ‘Well, Peter, you’re the new James Earl Jones,’ and I was like, ‘F****** hell, am I? Then why are you paying me such s*** money, George?”