About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/ee6a0ccde36991d54fd09297268d78d15f6c0696ccd381c8f7371143     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating
schema:url
schema:text
  • A photograph purportedly showing actor James Earl Jones dressed as Darth Vader on the streets of London alongside other Star Wars actors (sans costumes), is frequently shared with the strange claim that Jones had to socialize incognito due to London's "strict segregation laws": This claim appears to have been made up out of the whole cloth. For starters, there were no "strict segregation laws" in London in 1979 -- there were no segregation laws in England at all. The 1965 Race Relations Act prohibited "discrimination on racial grounds in places of public resort." Getting back to the photograph in question, however, the man in the Darth Vader suit is not James Earl Jones. Although Jones is well-known as the voice of Darth Vader, he didn't actually physically portray the dark lord on the big screen. As such, it would have been unusual for Jones to wear the costume for a promotional event. Mark Hamill, the actor who played Luke Skywalker, and who appears in the photograph, tweeted: WRONG! Never heard of so-called"ban"-but that's NOT Mr. Jones in Vader costume-He NEVER did press for #SW & certainly never in #DarthDrag! https://t.co/zcY8ZDgE0h — Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) August 29, 2017 So what about Dave Prowse, the actor who actually portrayed Vader on the big screen? According to the actor's Twitter account, it's not him either: @HamillHimself is right. Total rubbish. No clue who is inside that cheap looking halloween costume. Also not big enough for Vader ? #Fake https://t.co/XHkhzlCpt8 — DARTH VADER (@isDARTHVADER) August 29, 2017 The photograph was most likely taken by The Lancashire Evening Post during the opening weekend of Star Wars in the United Kingdom in January 1978. Although we haven't been able to locate this exact image in the newspaper's archive, we did find a photograph featuring Kenny Baker, the actor who played R2D2, with a similar Darth Vader character. The caption for that photograph didn't even mention the Vader character, indicating that it likely wasn't a cast member behind the mask: Preston's own Kenny Baker runs into trouble during the UK premiere of the first Star Wars film on January 27 1978.
schema:mentions
schema:reviewRating
schema:author
schema:datePublished
schema:inLanguage
  • English
schema:itemReviewed
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software