Head on over to StarWars.com for an interview Sam Witwer conducted with Lucasfilm’s dandy Dan Brooks in which he talks about his time providing the voice work for Darth Maul. The interview obviously touches on the Star Wars Rebels episode “Twin Suns” so you may want to hold off reading the article if you haven’t had a chance to see that episode yet.
It’s the end of a long road for the devil-faced villain and for Witwer, one which began when George Lucas and Filoni decided to bring Maul — who had been sliced in half by Obi-Wan in The Phantom Menace — back in The Clone Wars. Not in a resurrection, but rather, a revelation that he actually didn’t die from his injuries.
“I don’t know that I’d ever attempted [Maul’s voice] before I was hired to do him, and I think that proved to make me feel a little bit insecure,” Witwer says. “When I did the Son of Mortis for the Mortis trilogy [in The Clone Wars], Dave asked me when we were finishing up those three episodes, ‘What do you think about this whole idea that Maul might have survived?’ Because the rumblings were that this Savage Opress thing was going to develop into that. And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I don’t know about that. That’s a little bit weird.’ And he says, ‘I might have something down the road for you.’ I said, ‘Like a bounty hunter?’ He’s like, ‘…Yeah…’ So I didn’t get it at all.”
