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Perhaps most controversial was the choice to bring back Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious. It was so controversial, that Poe Dameron’s line “Somehow, ...

Did Emperor Palpatine, ahem, ever *do it*? Actor Ian McDiarmid has shared his theories on whether the villain had sex (and he's open to the idea).

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany.