"I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film"
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“I suppose” is doing a lot of work here: it’s the verbal equivalent of a shrug that’s been politely trained. David Prowse isn’t delivering a punchline so much as letting a lifetime of set politics leak through a mild, almost English understatement. The line reads like someone choosing the safest possible truth - fun, yes, but only in a carefully fenced-off memory.
As an actor forever welded to the black silhouette of Darth Vader, Prowse’s public identity is a paradox: iconic presence, minimal authorial control. He performed the body, someone else voiced the soul, and the finished character became a global property he couldn’t fully claim. Against that backdrop, “the second film” (for most listeners, The Empire Strikes Back) functions less as trivia than as a small act of re-centering. He’s not talking about “Star Wars” as a monolith; he’s isolating the moment when the machine briefly felt human.
The subtext is that fun is the exception, not the baseline. Empire is widely remembered as the darker, more sophisticated installment, but darkness on screen doesn’t preclude ease on set. Sequels often come with bigger budgets, clearer workflows, and a cast and crew that finally know what the movie is. Prowse’s comment hints at that settled confidence - and maybe at the relief of being inside an operation that had stopped improvising around chaos.
It’s also a quiet negotiation with fandom: not bitterness, not worship, just the actor’s modest insistence that behind the myth was a job, and one time, it actually felt good.
As an actor forever welded to the black silhouette of Darth Vader, Prowse’s public identity is a paradox: iconic presence, minimal authorial control. He performed the body, someone else voiced the soul, and the finished character became a global property he couldn’t fully claim. Against that backdrop, “the second film” (for most listeners, The Empire Strikes Back) functions less as trivia than as a small act of re-centering. He’s not talking about “Star Wars” as a monolith; he’s isolating the moment when the machine briefly felt human.
The subtext is that fun is the exception, not the baseline. Empire is widely remembered as the darker, more sophisticated installment, but darkness on screen doesn’t preclude ease on set. Sequels often come with bigger budgets, clearer workflows, and a cast and crew that finally know what the movie is. Prowse’s comment hints at that settled confidence - and maybe at the relief of being inside an operation that had stopped improvising around chaos.
It’s also a quiet negotiation with fandom: not bitterness, not worship, just the actor’s modest insistence that behind the myth was a job, and one time, it actually felt good.
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