Interviewed by the always amazing Amy Ratcliffe in the 236th and penultimate edition of the official Star Wars magazine Star Wars Insider, Sam Witwer not only discusses his time as the voice of the Zabrak dark sider Maul, from The Clone Wars to Star Wars Rebels and now to his own show Maul: Shadow Lord, but to look at the state of the galaxy and ask whether it’s a better world with the Jedi in it, or not?
“He was trained to hate and destroy the Jedi without ever questioning it. Now he’s looking at the galaxy going, ‘Boy, we could sure use a Jedi Knight or two.’ At least with the Jedi, you knew where they stood. There’s something to respect there. This Empire, he sees no values there, just the naked grab for influence, power, and money. Principles are gone. And he looks at that with a certain level of distaste. He may not have agreed with the Jedi Knights, but at least they had principles. You knew who you were dealing with, and you could reason with that. There’s no reasoning with the Empire.
This show is bad guys versus worse guys, and Maul’s on the bad-guy side of that equation.”
Fascinating as always from Witwer, so be sure to grab issue 236 (on shelves in the States now, and elsewhere shortly) and be sure to get your orders in the for final ever super-sized edition of the magazine when it arrives in April.
