James Earl Jones was paid only $7K to voice Darth Vader in 'Star Wars: A New Hope'
Briefly

George wanted, pardon the expression, a dark voice. So he hires a guy born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan, who stutters. And that's the voice. That's me.
I lucked out from all these so-called handicaps for a job that paid $7,000! And I thought that was good money. And I got to be a voice on a movie.
He said, 'No, no. What we're finding out is you need to keep his voice on a very narrow band of inflection because he ain't human, really.'
Disney used AI to recreate James Earl Jones' voice in the 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' TV series.
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