Fast forward 4 years later and the IESB has changed quite a bit. We are no longer a Star Wars fan group, heck we no longer even have the same friends but our little website has grown to become a broader movie website. We attend junkets, premieres, set visits and other celebrity events on a weekly if not daily basis. Simply stated we cover everything that has to do with movies and we are still growing everyday.
We now even have an office in Los Angeles with our good friends over at Dark Horse Entertainment (Dark Horse Comics). Which brings me to an interview that we had last week with Ray Park, that's right Darth Maul came by and I had the chance to interview him in my office.
It's not the first time that I have met with Ray, actually we had both attended the Masters of Horror Season 2 launch party just a few days before with mutual friends.
Sure we have interviewed Harrison Ford, James Cameron, M. Night, Bryan Singer to pretty much everybody in Hollywood but I have never had anybody come to my office for an interview.
My geeky side was quite obvious when he Ray walked into my office. With my fullsize Stormtrooper and Biker Scout Helmets, to my different sets of Star Wars action figures, to my bus shelter size X-Men: The Last Stand Wolverine poster hanging on the wall, I realized I am still that same geek that camped out for Episodes 1, 2 and 3 and that would do the mandatory toy run at every department store in my area looking for the newest variant in Star Wars toys.
Ray Park has been busy lately and can expect to stay even busier in the near future with a recent change of management.
While everybody quickly remembers him as Darth Maul or Toad from the first X-Men film, Park has become a versatile actor. With two movies coming out later this year, the first being Sci-Fi Channel's Slayer in which he plays a pair acrobatic Vampires and second being What We Do Is Secret, where he plays L.A. club owner Brendan Mullen.
Ray has not left his roots behind, he actually cameos in Kyle Newman's Fanboys which is about a group of friends that have a mission to break into Skywalker Ranch and watch Star Wars: The Phantom Menace early as a wish to a dying friend.
So what is next for Ray? Ray has several projects that he will be working on later this year that will continue to keep him very busy but with the Star Wars TV just right around the corner I had to ask if there was anything that he would like to do on the upcoming series. Simply put Ray says that he would do whatever George would ask him to, revisit Darth Maul's early days to maybe playing a Jedi or even helping out with choreography. Scheduling permitting, he would go back to Star Wars in a heartbeat.
Don't take my word for it. Click on links below and watch our exclusive video interview with Ray Park.
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