My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
I, and I'm sure many celebrities, have a certain amount of guilt over letters that didn't get answered or got answered after long delays.
But it turned out that Vader was an icon who the kids thought was wonderful, so the campaign became much more successful because of Star Wars.
I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.
Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.
The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.
Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
By then of course I knew my voice would be overdubbed and I wasn't worried about saying my lines quite as correctly as I did in the first film.
As a director he was not that interested in Vader.