The Toronto Sun spoke with Samuel L. Jackson:

"We were all encouraged to develop our own fighting styles so my Hong Kong film collection came into play quite a bit -- because we've pretty much all decided that Mace is the second baddest guy in the universe." Number one, of course, is Yoda, Jackson says. "Yoda is the man!"

As for the fights, it is obvious that Jackson did not really enter a gladiatorial contest on a distant planet a long time ago with fantastic beasts. Instead, he entered a soundstage at the 20th Century Fox studio in Sydney and swung his lightsabre around while being filmed against blue and green screens, which allow for digital effects to be added later.

No problem, says Jackson. While some actors are intimidated by having to "act" while surrounded by next to nothing, Jackson's imagination is limitless in this arena.

"Totally!" he says of his boyhood emerging in the role. "I spent so much time in my room fighting off imaginary pirates and Basil Rathbone and all those guys, and running from the cyclops and all these other fantastic things.

"So, when George put me in that big empty room and said: 'Okay, lots of things are attacking you, fight 'em off!', I went straight to the place. It was great! I kind of turned my theme music on in my head and started looking around for 'em: Okay, let's go!"

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