Last night the cunning Maul (remember, he ditched the “Darth” designation earlier in the series) returned to Star Wars Rebels in “Visions and Voices” which was the final episode from Season 3 scheduled to air in 2016. And what an episode it was. Ahead of the episode’s debut on Disney XD, Comicbook.com spoke with Sam Witwer about the current state of his character.
“He’s nearing 50. If he’s not smarter and wiser, then boy, he really hasn’t been doing anything. He’s been screwing up,” actor Sam Witwer, who portrays Maul on Rebels and before on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, told Comicbook.com. “He’s smarther than perhaps anyone knew. Darth Maul is a smart guy, he was trained quite well by Sidious with the intellectual threat rather than just the physical threat; going forward from there to meet Darth Maul later, he had to be even smarter than that because just the fact that he survives that 16 years with the Empire coming to power, he had to be even more careful than he was before.”
Witwer also offered up the following comments when speaking about what the future holds for Maul as this series progresses.
“It’s anyone’s guess,” Witwer said. “The Dark Side is the nightmarish merry-go-round of awfulness. When you’re self-obsessed and all you can think about is yourself and gaining power, gaining influence, having this constant need for ‘give me things, give me things, I feel a hole inside me so perhaps if I can fill that hole with material objects, if I can fill that hole with materialistic relationships with people, if I can fill that hole with all manner of distractions,’ but that’s the key. These are only distractions. These will never actually fill the hole that, say, Palpatine feels in his heart or Vader does or Maul. These are broken men who are trying to fill a black hole inside their own hearts and pull themselves together.”
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