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Speaker 1: Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.

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Speaker 2: It's just Jones and Amanda's cutting room FLOORSSA.

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Speaker 1: I find your lack of faith disturbing.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was sad to hear about James Earl Jones

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Speaker 2: is passing. The distinguished actor and voice of Darth Vader.

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Speaker 2: He passed away at the age of ninety three.

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Speaker 3: His voice has been the through line of some of

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Speaker 3: our most famous films over the years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Darth Vader. He played more Fassa in The Lion King.

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Speaker 4: He played in The Dad in Coming to America, one

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Speaker 4: of those great roles.

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Speaker 2: He also was in Field of Dreams. He had some great,

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Speaker 2: great movies. We caught up with James Earl Jones. He

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Speaker 2: was in town back in twenty thirteen for Driving Miss

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Speaker 2: Daisy was a stage play and he played the driver

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Speaker 2: and Angela Lansbury was Miss Daisy.

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Speaker 4: I went, sir, it was an extraordinary night. It was great.

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Speaker 2: That chat we had with James Earl Jones was fantastic

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Speaker 2: and I think we should revisit it to pay homage

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Speaker 2: to the late great Jones.

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Speaker 4: James L.

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Speaker 3: Jones has been called one of the greatest actors in

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Speaker 3: American history, winning a Tony Award, a Golden Globe, Emmy's

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Speaker 3: an Academy award in his fifty plus year career. What

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Speaker 3: an't underachiever. He's in Sydney performing and driving Miss Daisy

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Speaker 3: and he joins us this morning. James el Jones.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello?

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Speaker 3: Do we call you James or James Earl? What's your

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Speaker 3: first name?

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Speaker 1: From Themtants South? And we all have three names down

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Speaker 1: there and then and there the two given names not

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Speaker 1: to that names.

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Speaker 3: So you're James Jons. Girl, You're I feel like just

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Speaker 3: getting you to read the phone book for me with

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Speaker 3: your beautiful, beautiful voice. I was surprised to hear that.

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Speaker 2: Are you talking to me, James.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking to.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful?

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Speaker 3: Actually, Jones, You've actually got quite a deep voice. But

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Speaker 3: next to James Earl, you sound like a.

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Speaker 2: Squeaky I sound like a I sound like a cess

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Speaker 2: next to a seven four seven.

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Speaker 3: But James, oh, you had a stutter when you were

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Speaker 3: a child.

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Speaker 1: I'm still a steller, yeah really, but I work hard

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Speaker 1: to work around it and use it and try to

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Speaker 1: be as clear as I can.

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Speaker 3: Has been a performer helped absolutely, It is saved me.

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Speaker 1: I think I wouldn't say saved my life because I

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Speaker 1: was not about off being a mute. I was listening

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Speaker 1: a lot and learning a lot. But the idea that

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Speaker 1: the world is full of great words invented and created

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Speaker 1: by great thinkers, the idea that I could say those

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Speaker 1: words things I would never imagine it is very appealing

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Speaker 1: to me. It was as a child, and now that

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Speaker 1: I can, I can say I do plays written by

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Speaker 1: great authors, like the one we're doing now and driving

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Speaker 1: this Daisy, your.

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Speaker 3: Role as Darth Vader, it's still so incredible. When you

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Speaker 3: were asked to do the voice, did you imagine that

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Speaker 3: it was it would resonate for so long?

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Speaker 1: None of us did, but we did the second episode.

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Speaker 1: We didn't know how to recapture what we had done,

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Speaker 1: so we decided to keep it as simple as possible,

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Speaker 1: and that was the key.

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Speaker 2: Really, you've never used the voice for evil, like ringing

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Speaker 2: out a pizza or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't own the voice. George Lucas owns the voice.

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Speaker 1: So I can't go on a talk show and it

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Speaker 1: Darth Vader. I must always pige it myself.

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Speaker 2: But what about in your private moments?

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Speaker 1: So you know, like no, I once used it as

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Speaker 1: a CD handle back in the days when if you're

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Speaker 1: driving great distances at night you use a CD radio

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Speaker 1: citizens band. Well, I used Darth Vader as my handle.

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Speaker 1: I picked truck drivers out, so that stopped doing it Vader.

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Speaker 3: The role of Darth Vader was played by actor David Prowse.

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Speaker 3: Did they set out to use his voice but change

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Speaker 3: their mind?

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Speaker 1: Well, you see, David has a particlar accent and it

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Speaker 1: was I think more of a tenor voice than a

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Speaker 1: bass voice. So they had to search around for a

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Speaker 1: base and they thought of using Arstin Wells, but thought

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Speaker 1: he'd be too recognizable. So they picked this guy who

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Speaker 1: was born in Mississippi and raised in Michigan who had

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Speaker 1: a stutter, and that was me.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. Well, you've hoped for people like me.

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Speaker 2: That means that something could happen for me. James, Well,

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Speaker 2: there's hope, you know. Do you think there might be

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Speaker 2: a chance they might be making coming to America too?

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Speaker 2: Maybe there could be a role for me in that.

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Speaker 2: My son I could be your white son of this.

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Speaker 1: Works. That's it for today. Come back tomorrow for more

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Speaker 1: of Jonesy and Amanda's cutting room foot