Last week the Force.net revealed that Scottish Mimic Lewis MacLeaod was playing the role of Sebulba The Hutt in Star Wars The Phantom Menace, this week comes his first interview on the role.

Lewis a voice artist can be heard on BBC Radio Scotlands On The Ball football show at 1pm on a saturday afternoon, he is then on Off The Ball at 5.30pm. His regular voices include that of Celtic Chairman Fergus McCann and Scottish Football Association Chief Jim Farry.

He is also the star of the hilarious Batchelor's Supernoodles Adverts where he plays a loser who lives on Supernoodles after his girlfriend dumps him.

So how did he get a role on Star Wars?

"At the audition I just got in front of the microphone and ran through everyone of the voices nonstop for five minutes"

What voices did you preform?

"Darth Vader, Yoda, Jabba The Hutt and everyone who was in the film. I can even do all the spaceships."

What was George Lucas' reaction to this?

"He just looked at me and said 'you're the most bizarre man I've ever met!"

What was it like to work with George Lucas?

"He was excellent as he knows exactly what he wants. The security was incredible though. After I had filmed a scene a security guard was on hand to deliver the reels. It was like nothing I've ever seen before.

Tell me about your time working on the film?

"Well originally I was called in just to do the voice of this new alien character, but while I was at Leavsden Studios In London, Lucas said he wanted to use my face."

"I thought he had another role in mind for me and I had images of swinging a light sabre above my head. But then he told me he wanted to turn my mug into a huge, horrible alien."

EDITOR NOTE: "Mug" is scottish slang for face.

What exactly is your role in the fim?

"I play a new character called Sebulba, who is a clone of the vile gangster Jabba The Hutt"

EDITOR NOTE: By saying clone, Lewis means same species.

How was sebulba created?

"Sebulba is completely computer generated, but they made him look exactly like me. He's big and he elongates into different shapes. He's a likeable baddie, but still a baddie."

How does he look like you?

"My face was filmed at all angles with digital video cameras. They captured my mannerisms which the animators used to make the alien. So the thing moves it's eyebrows the same way I do and has the same expressions.

What does the future hold for you?

"I think it's going to beat Titanic when it comes out and hopefully I'll end up in all three of them."

"In fact, I'm thinking of trying to convince George Lucas to use a Jim Farry-type alien with a little squeaky voice for the next Star Wars movie. The things that guy says at times you'd think he was from a different planet anyway."

Interview courtesy of Brian Cameron