I figured it was the Ian McDiarmid guy, since he was the emperor in return of the jedi and they just did prosthetics on him to be weird and creepy. Guess they hadn’t even casted him yet?
And then in 2004, the on screen evidence was deleted with the DVD revision edits when they deleted the original emperor and replaced him/it/her/them with Ian McDiarmid retroactively.
WAS it?? No shit. Look at that.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Marjorie_Eaton
I figured it was the Ian McDiarmid guy, since he was the emperor in return of the jedi and they just did prosthetics on him to be weird and creepy. Guess they hadn’t even casted him yet?
Edit: and looks like a different actor was used for “test shots” before the eventual final cut https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Elaine_Baker
And then in 2004, the on screen evidence was deleted with the DVD revision edits when they deleted the original emperor and replaced him/it/her/them with Ian McDiarmid retroactively.