Star Wars Celebration Ian McDiarmid: An Audience with The Emperor - Live Coverage!

The Popverse team is at Star Wars Celebration, and we're having an incredible time roaming the convention floor, peeking into panels, and checking out all the amazing experiences that Celebration has to offer.

Join us as we sit in on a panel spotlighting Ian McDiarmid, the Emperor Palpatine himself, as he chats all about his experience portraying Palpatine throughout each trilogy of the Skywalker saga.

The official panel description from the Star Wars Celebration website reads, “I am all the Sith.” Join Ian McDiarmid, who portrayed Chancellor and then Emperor Palpatine in all three trilogies of the Skywalker saga, for a discussion that is sure to reveal rare insights and behind-the-scenes stories from the celebrated actor who provided some of the most resonant, bone-chilling performances in all of the Star Wars saga.

Popverse will be liveblogging the entire panel as it happens, so keep an eye on this page to follow along with what's happening at An Audience with the Emperor live, or come back later to this page to read a moment-by-moment breakdown of all of the best bits of the panel.

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